Career
Rick Leonardi's well-known works in the 1980s include various sporadic fill-in issues of The Uncanny X-Men and The New Mutants, as well as runs on Cloak and Dagger.
He is credited, along with fellow illustrator Mike Zeck, of designing the black-and-white costume to which Spider-Man switched during the 1984 Secret Wars miniseries, and later wore for a time. According to the Spider-Man 1/2 special, the costume began as a design by Zeck that Leonardi embellished. The plot that developed as a result of Spider-Man's acquisition of the costume led to the creation of the Spider-Man villain known as Venom (though in a 2007 Comic Book Resources story, fan Randy Schueller claims to have devised a version of a black costume for Spider-Man in a story idea that he was paid for).
From 1992 to 1994, Leonardi drew the first 25 issues of Spider-Man 2099 with writer Peter David (with the exception of issues 9, 14, 18, and 21).
Leonardi drew the 2000 crossover miniseries Green Lantern Versus Aliens. His subsequent series work includes the runs on Nightwing, of which he illustrated most of the issues between #71 - 84 from 2002 to 2003, and on Batgirl, of which he drew issues #45 - 52 from 2003 to 2004. Subsequent miniseries he drew include Star Wars: General Grievous in 2005, and the 2006 movie tie-in, Superman Returns Prequel #3. He followed up that with other superhero titles such as Superman #665 and #668 (2007), JLA: Classified #43 (November 2007), Witchblade #112 (January 2008), and the 2008 miniseries DC Universe: Decisions.
Leonardi provided the artwork for the Vigilante series that debuted from DC in December 2008.
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