Her company, Orbit Publications, was a founding member of the Association of Comics Magazine Publishers, for which she served as secretary and board director.
She started her career as an assistant to Frank Z. Temerson, publisher for Helnit, Et-Es-Go Magazines, and other loosely affiliated companies.
[3] In 1945 she wrote for the syndicated comic Hep Cats, before taking over as publisher, business manager, and co-owner (with Marjorie May) of Orbit Publications in 1946.
[2] Also in 1948, Herman helped found the Association of Comics Magazine Publishers (ACMP) in response to the rising anti-comics sentiment in the United States.
[citation needed] In issue #23 of Cat-Man Comics (December 1943) (published by Frank Z. Temerson's Holyoke Publishing), superhero The Hood's blonde girlfriend's name is revealed to be "Miss Ray Hermann," later spelled "Ray Herman" and "Rae Herman.