Heroine Holidays BLACK CAT "A Day with Linda Turner: Christmas Party"

Not the Marvel anti-heroine, but a Golden Age actress/stuntwoman turned heroine...

...sharing Yuletide festivities with fellow (real life) movie and radio celebrities!

(See if you can name them all!)

Illustrated by Lee Elias (with Bob Powell doing the celeb caricatures), this gentle tale from Harvey's Black Cat #21 (1950) features Groucho Marx, Jack Benny & Rochester, and Bing Crosby along with Linda (Black Cat) Turner and her somewhat dense boyfriend Rick Horne!
When the story was reprinted (in black and white) in Recollections' Original Black Cat #8 (1992), it finally got the cover...

...which it didn't in the original!
BTW, the cover was by Harvey Comics' Editor/Art Director Ken Selig, who had been working for Harvey since just after the original publication of the story in 1950!

NOT WHO YOU THINK: Black Cat and the Director of Doom!

Long before Felicia Hardy padded around the pages of Marvel Comics...

 ...another Black Cat slinked around comics during the Golden Age!

We presented this original Black Cat's final tale HERE, so let's continue with her second tale (never-reprinted) from Harvey Comics' 100-page Pocket Comics #2 (1941)!

As you might have guessed, Nazi spy/film director Garboil eventually met his fate...
Written by publisher Alfred Harvey and illustrated by co-creator Al Gabrielle, the Black Cat was the most popular of Harvey's pre-humor characters, appearing regularly in Pocket Comics, then Speed Comics, a couple of one-shot appearances in other anthologies, as a regular text feature in Terry and the Pirates, and finally her own title that survived from the Golden Age into the Silver Age.

Be here next week, when we present another tale of classic comic grrl power!

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