Linda Fite is an American

United States

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 writer

Writer

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 and editor

Editing

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 who created the Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics

Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...

 series The Cat

Tigra

Tigra is a fictional American comic book superheroine in the Marvel Comics universe. Introduced as the non-superpowered crime fighter The Cat in Claws of the Cat #1 , she was co-created by writer-editor Roy Thomas, writer Linda Fite, and penciller Marie Severin...

, and who while serving as an assistant to Marvel editor-in-chief Stan Lee

Stan Lee

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, helped bring fledgling artist Barry Windsor-Smith

Barry Windsor-Smith

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 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

Tigra

Tigra is a fictional American comic book superheroine in the Marvel Comics universe. Introduced as the non-superpowered crime fighter The Cat in Claws of the Cat #1 , she was co-created by writer-editor Roy Thomas, writer Linda Fite, and penciller Marie Severin...

, 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

Flo Steinberg

Florence "Flo" Steinberg is an American publisher of one of the first independent comic books, the underground/alternative comics hybrid Big Apple Comix, in 1975...

, Big Apple Comix (Sept. 1975).

Fite works for the Times Herald-Record

Times Herald-Record

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, a daily newspaper based in Middletown, New York

Middletown, Orange County, New York

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.

Fite was married to Marvel Comics artist Herb Trimpe

Herb Trimpe

Herbert W. "Herb" Trimpe Herbert W. "Herb" Trimpe Herbert W. "Herb" Trimpe (b. May 26, 1939, is an American comic book artist and occasional writer, best known for his work on The Incredible Hulk and as the first artist to draw for publication the character Wolverine, who later became a breakout...

, with whom she has three children.

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