Linda Fite is an American writer and editor who created the Marvel Comics series The Cat, and who while serving as an assistant to Marvel editor-in-chief Stan Lee, helped bring fledgling artist Barry Windsor-Smith to the company by responding with an encouraging note to some art he had sent to the Marvel offices. The note prompted Smith and a friend to fly from England and camp out near the Marvel Comics offices.
Fite wrote and helped produce the...
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Linda Fite is an American writer and editor who created the Marvel Comics series The Cat, and who while serving as an assistant to Marvel editor-in-chief Stan Lee, helped bring fledgling artist Barry Windsor-Smith to the company by responding with an encouraging note to some art he had sent to the Marvel offices. The note prompted Smith and a friend to fly from England and camp out near the Marvel Comics offices.
Fite wrote and helped produce the four-issue run of Marvel's Claws of the Cat, an early and unsuccessful attempt to produce a female comic-book action character. Other Marvel titles for which she wrote stories included The Uncanny X-Men, Rawhide Kid, and Night Nurse. She also wrote and illustrated a one-page story for an East Coast independent/underground comic published by Flo Steinberg, Big Apple Comix (Sept. 1975).
Fite works for the Times Herald-Record, a daily newspaper based in Middletown, New York.
Fite was married to Marvel Comics artist Herb Trimpe, with whom she has...
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