Linda Fite

Who is Linda Fite?

Linda Fite is an American writer and editor who wrote the entire run of the Marvel Comics series The Cat.

Fite was hired by Marvel as an editorial assistant/production assistant. Though she continually appealed to editor Roy Thomas for writing assignments, from 1968-1971 the only writing jobs she was given were short back-up features in The Uncanny X-Men and Rawhide Kid. In 1972 she got her first offer to be a regular writer, on Claws of the Cat, an early and unsuccessful attempt to appeal to female superhero comic readers. It was not a flattering assignment; Fite was selected only because Marvel's editorial staff felt a series targeted towards female readers should have a female creative team, and she found the character unappealing: "I thought, 'A cat? Oh, my God, how original. We’ll have a woman and we’ll call her Cat and she can be in catfights.' But I was just happy to have the chance to do it." She infused the series with a woman's liberation tone, but it was cancelled after only four issues due to poor sales.

Other stories she wrote included a fill-in issue of Night Nurse.