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Leo Dorfman was a prolific writer of comic books…and I'm afraid I don't know as much about him as I'd like. He began working for DC around 1950. One of his early credits was the Robin strip in Star Spangled Comics. He wrote war stories and romance stories and such throughout the fifties, and around '61 he became one of Mort Weisinger's main writers for the Superman titles and may well have been the most prolific scripter of the Man of Steel during that decade. (One story of his that many will remember was "Superman-Red and Superman-Blue.") During that period, he was also working a lot for Dell and Gold Key Comics. He passed away in 1974.

Some time between 1952 and 1956, he appeared as a contestant on the game show, Two for the Money, which was hosted by comedian Herb Shriner. Kevin Greenlee just wrote me that he discovered this appearance on an old videotape and he's been nice enough to transfer the segment so we can all see it. Not much is said about the specifics of Mr. Dorfman's career — they don't even mention a comic he writes or a publisher — but it's interesting to see how the host talked about comic books in those days when they were under attack by parents' groups and other moralizers…