Rick Leonardi is coming to Garden State Comic fest June 24-25th!

Rick 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 writer Peter David, 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. He and writer Tom DeFalco created the Rose in The Amazing Spider-Man #253.