Artists who worked on the feature after Al Gabriele include Pierce Rice, Arturo Caseneuve, Bob Powell, Jill Elgin and Joe Kubert.

Lee Elias, occasionally inked by John Belfi, provided the art from 1946 until the feature's end in 1951.

[5][6] While following Garboil, Black Cat meets Rick Horne, a reporter for the Los Angeles Globe who has been assigned to investigate rumors of a Nazi spy ring in LA.

Initially disdainful of each other, the pair are forced to work together and discover that Garboil is planting secret information in his motion pictures.

Garboil escapes and Linda decides to maintain her Black Cat identity in order to keep watch over his activities.

[7] According to Jess Nevins' Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes, most of the Black Cat's opponents are ordinary criminals and Axis agents, but she does fight a female mad scientist, the criminal brothers known as the Three Black Cats, a vampire, and after the war Russians in Afghanistan.

Her father was silent film western actor Tim Turner and her unnamed mother was a stunt woman, having appeared at least once in a jungle girl picture or serial, probably in the early thirties.

That same history as a stunt woman, plus life on her father's ranch outside of Los Angeles, gave Linda the physical skills to perform her work as The Black Cat.

However, as they worked together more and more, Horne was impressed with Black Cat's ability and began to view her as an efficient force against crime and an attractive fantasy woman.

In Toby's initial appearances, the cat displayed an antagonistic dislike for Garboil, Linda's director on her films.

Linda initially suspects him of being a spy because, as the narration explains in her origin story in Pocket Comics #1, of "the propaganda in her new script", and her suspicions are proven to be well-founded.

A former cowboy who gained stardom as a western hero during the silent movie days, Tim Turner retired from films sometime after the death of his stunt woman wife, Linda's mother.

Though he is concerned for his daughter's safety, Tim Turner wholly approves of her activities as The Black Cat and her desire to bring justice to the world.

Later, in order to cheer the despondent youth, Linda appears to him as Black Cat and takes him with her as she trails The Fire Bug.

While Linda and Tim debated what to do with Kit, the boy managed through a combination of youthful bravado and his aerialist skills to foil a burglar he caught in the Turner home.