Background
Dorfman grew up on New York"s Lower East Side.
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Leo Dorfman
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Career
He began working for National Periodical Publications in the 1950s. Mark Evanier has estimated that Dorfman may have been "the most prolific scripter" for Superman during the 1960s. Dorfman"s work included the creation of Pete Ross in 1961 and the Ghosts anthology series in 1971.
He also wrote the 1963 "Superman Red/Superman Blue", which inspired a year-long plot arc in 1998.
Dorfman produced supernatural stories for Gold Key Comics" supernaturally themed Twilight Zone, Ripley"s Believe it or Not, Boris Karloff Mystery and Grimm"s Ghost Stories. One of Gold Key"s editors at the time told Mark Evanier "Leo writes stories and then he decides whether he"s going to sell them to District of Columbia or to us.
He tells us that if they come out good, they go to us and if they don"t, they go to District of Columbia. I assume he tells District of Columbia the opposite."
Leo Dorfman died unexpectedly on July 9, 1974 at the age of 60 while still writing for Ghosts.
