Russell Robert Winterbotham (August 1, 1904 – June 9, 1971) was an American writer of western and science fiction genre fiction, and the author of instructional pamphlets and several

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s. He also wrote crime stories and one science fiction novel (''The Other World'') using the

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"J. Harvey Bond". Another science fiction novel used the pseudonym "Franklin Hadley". He also wrote scripts for Fred Harman's western comic '' Red Ryder''. Winterbotham was born in Salina, Kansas, and died in

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. While writing, his full-time job was fiction editor for

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Bibliography

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Curious and Unusual Deaths
' (Girard, Kansas:Haldeman-Julius, 1929) *'' Maximo, the Amazing Superman'' (

, 1940) *
The Whispering Spheres
' (Comet, July 1941) *''Convoy Patrol: a thrilling story of the U.S. Navy ''(1942) *''Ray Land of the Tank Corps U.S.A. ''(1942) *'' How Comic Strips are Made'' (1946) *''Chris Welkin - Planeteer'' (comic strip, 1952-1964) *''Murder Isn't Funny ''(as J. Harvey Bond, 1958) *''Bye Bye, Baby! ''(as J. Harvey Bond, 1958) *''Kill Me With Kindness'' (as J. Harvey Bond, 1959) *''If Wishes Were Hearses ''(as J. Harvey Bond, 1961) *''The Red Planet'' (1962) *''The Space Egg'' (Hardback 1958, Paperback 1963) *''The Men from Arcturus'' (1963) *''The Other World'' (as by J. Harvey Bond, 1963) *''The Puppet Planet'' (1964) *''Planet Big Zero'' (1964) (as by Franklin Hadley) *''The Lord of Nardos'' (1966)

References

* * Horn, Maurice (1976). "Winterbotham, Russell (1904-1971)" ''The World Encyclopedia of Comics''

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