Boy sidekicks were all over the comics-world in the Golden Age, but young girl partners were rarer than hen's teeth-- except for one particular chicken-chopper, Kitten.
The superhero Catman (sometimes Cat-Man) began as a solo act in 1940. About a year later, in CATMAN COMICS #5, the hero liberated Katie Conn, a ten-year-old circus-girl from a "bad uncle." and eventually made her his ward. When Katie learned of her mentor's secret identity, she donned a costume like his, called herself Kitten and began fighting crime with him.
The first origin is pretty much lifted from the first appearance of Robin, right down to giving the youngster an acrobatic background, but Kitten got a very weird revised origin in 1945, though the series was cancelled about a year later. Occasionally AC Comics revived these public domain characters for guest-spots.
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