Boni Victor Bloom
Pen Names: Vic Bloom and Victor Boni

A huge pulp magazine fan he dreams of working as a Broadway playwright some day.

In 1931 he settled in NYC and starts tiring to sell his scripts. He sells stories to Argosy and Det. Fiction Weekly.

He also sold jokes and radio plays during the ’30s. Hw was the associate editor and then editor of Dell’s Film Fun’s Comedy and 1,000 Jokes magazines from 1937 until 1942.

Comic works at Dell include…
Popular Comics #48 February 1940, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #49 March 1940, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #50 April 1940, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #51 May 1940, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #52 June 1940, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #53 July 1940, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #54 August 1940, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #55 September 1940, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #56 October 1940, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #57 November 1940, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #58 December 1940, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #59 January 1941, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #60 February 1941, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #61 March 1941, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #62 April 1941, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #63 May 1941, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #64 June 1941, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #65 July 1941, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #66 August 1941, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #67 September 1941, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #68 October 1941, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #69 November 1941, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #70 December 1941, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy
Popular Comics #71 January 1942, Dell Comics, Wally Williams American Boy

The Funnies #44 June 1940, Dell Comics, Speed Martin
The Funnies #47 September 1940, Dell Comics, Speed Martin
The Funnies #48 October 1940, Dell Comics, Speed Martin
The Funnies #49 November 1940, Dell Comics, Speed Martin
The Funnies #50 December 1940, Dell Comics, Speed Martin
The Funnies #51 January 1941, Dell Comics, Speed Martin
The Funnies #52 February 1941, Dell Comics, Speed Martin
The Funnies #53 March 1941, Dell Comics, Speed Martin
The Funnies #54 April 1941, Dell Comics, Speed Martin
The Funnies #55 May 1941, Dell Comics, Speed Martin
The Funnies #56 June 1941, Dell Comics, Speed Martin
The Funnies #57 July 1941, Dell Comics, Speed Martin
The Funnies #58 August 1941, Dell Comics, Speed Martin
UThe Funnies #59 September 1941, Dell Comics, Speed Martin
US The Funnies #61 November 1941, Dell Comics, Speed Martin

While working on the mags he also did some freelance work for MLJ including writing on the first Archie story in Pep #22. Bloom works on three more stories before leaving comics and enlisting.

Comic works at MLJ under the pen name Vic Bloom include…
Pep Comics #22 December 1941, MLJ Comics, Archie
Pep Comics #23 January 1942, MLJ Comics, Archie
Pep Comics #24 February 1942, MLJ Comics, Archie
Wilbur Comics #7 Winter 1945, MLJ Comics, Wilbur

He enlists in the armed forces and becomes a captain in the Office of Special Services (OSS) where he remains until 1960.

He lives in London working for the BBC Radio staying there until his death in 1983.