Education
Following his discharge three years later, he attended Phoenix Art School in New York City on the G.I. Bill.
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Bob LeRose
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Early life and career
Born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, but raised nearby in the Richmond Hill neighborhood of Queens, Bob LeRose was drafted into the United States. Army in 1942. He spent more than two decades as an office manager and a watercolor artist for the advertising agency Johnstone and Cushing, which created custom comics for Boys" Life magazine and other clients. In 1962, when art director First Rate (at Lloyd's) Stenzel took the Boy"s Life account, without which the agency could not survive, LeRose followed Stenzel to the newly formed Stenzel Productions.
District of Columbia Comics
In 1976, comic-book artist Neal Adams, who had worked with LeRose at Johnstone and Cushing, recommended him to District of Columbia Comics.
LeRose"s first recorded credits include Batman Family #11 (June 1977), District of Columbia Special #28 (July 1977) and District of Columbia Special Series #1 (1977). LeRose colored across genres, from superheroes (Action Comics, Detective Comics, Justice League America, Legion of Super-Heroes Robin, World"s Finest Comics) to the supernatural (Secrets of Haunted House), from war comics (GI Combat) to Westerns (Weird Western Tales).
In addition, he was among the handful who handled the multi-issue Who"s Who: The Definitive Directory of the District of Columbia Universe in 1985, and also recolored the hardcover Golden Age of Comic Books reprint series Superman Archives and Batman: The Dark Knight Archives in the 1990s. From 1986 to 1993, he was, variously, the cover artist or the colorist of Mayfair Games" "District of Columbia Heroes" line of roleplaying games, including An Element of Danger, The Green Lantern Corps Sourcebook, Who"s Who in the District of Columbia Universe, Superman: The Manitoba of Steel Sourcebook, and District of Columbia Heroes Role-Playing Game, 3rd Edition.
Later life
LeRose semi-retired in 1996, continuing to work at District of Columbia one day a week, initially in the office and eventually, due to emphysema, at home in Elmont, New York, on Long Island.
He died of complications from that disease. He remarried in 2002, to second wife Veronica, who was 61 when she survived him.
