Linda Fite

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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.

Fite wrote and helped produce the four-issue run of Marvel's The Cat, an early and unsuccessful attempt to produce a female comic-book action character.

She was married 33 years to artist Herb Trimpe who illustrated The Incredible Hulk and a number of other Marvel Comics titles, divorcing in December 2005.

She is a cousin of New Hampshire Magazine editor Rick Broussard. In 1971, Fite took Broussard on a tour of Marvel Comics in New York, and offered to name a bit character after him in the first issue of The Cat; however, Marvel management refused to permit this, saying the name "Broussard" was too ethnic and unusual for a non-recurring character.^{[citation needed]}

Fite works for the Times Herald-Record, a daily newspaper based in Middletown, New York.