[3] In 1938, she became a staff writer at the Manhattan studio Eisner & Iger,[6] one of the era's comics packagers that would supply comic-book content on demand to publishers testing the emerging medium.
[1] Blum is also tentatively identified as the author of the two-page text fillers "Treasure Hunt" Parts 1 & 2 in Action Comics #15-16 (Aug.-Sept. 1939), bylined "Jack Anthony".
As publisher and historian Denis Kitchen wrote, "Tuska, like Eisner, had a crush on office mate Toni Blum but was too shy to make his move.
The actual provocation that inflamed Tuska, Eisner privately said, was Powell's loud assertion that he 'could fuck [Toni Blum] anytime' he wanted.
After decking Powell, Tuska stood over his prostrate coworker and in a voice Eisner described as Lon Chaney Jr. in Of Mice and Men said, 'You shouldn't ought to have said that, Bob.
'"[14] Blum fell in love with another of the staff artists, Bill Bossert,[15] marrying him sometime during World War II,[16] and together eventually having three children.
[1] A different source includes her among the post-Eisner S. M. Iger Studio personnel in the 1940s who adapted literary novels and stories for Classics Illustrated comics, for which her father Alex Blum drew many issues.
[22] Blum developed breast cancer, surviving for five years and undergoing chemotherapy, and died in 1973, according to Bossert in an interview conducted in the late 2000s,[2] or 1972, per Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928-1999.