"[4] Emigrating to America as a 7-year-old, first to Hartford, Connecticut, and then to New York City,[4] he eventually won a scholarship to the Pratt Institute.

[4] After graduation, he joined Jack Binder's studio in 1941, where he worked on key Fawcett titles including Captain Marvel, Bulletman, and Ibis the Invincible.

In this capacity, he was the lead artist on the Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane series for the entirety of its first decade.

[9] Catwoman made her first appearance in the Silver Age of Comic Books in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #70 (Nov. 1966) in a story drawn by Schaffenberger.

Somewhat metaphorically, the Superboy- and Supergirl-less DC universe that followed the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths turned out to be a mostly Schaffenberger-less one as well.

He largely retired from comics soon after helping with the final pre-Crisis Superman tale "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?

[15] Schaffenberger and his wife, the former Dorothy Bates Watson,[16] who married in Englewood, New Jersey, on March 30, 1946,[17] had two children, Susan and her three-years-younger brother, Karl.