Russell R. Winterbotham
{{short description|American novelist}}
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 Big Little Books. He also wrote crime stories and one science fiction novel (The Other World) using the pen name "J. Harvey Bond". Another science fiction novel used the pseudonym "Franklin Hadley". He also wrote scripts for Fred Harman's western comic Red Ryder{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/harman_fred.htm|title = Fred Harman}} and the newspaper comic strip Chris Welkin, Planeteer.{{cite magazine |first=Ron |last=Goulart |title=Sci Fi Funnies Part IV |magazine=Comics Feature |issue=51 |date=January 1987 |publisher=Movieland Publishing |page=47}}
Winterbotham was born in Salina, Kansas, and died in Bay Village, Ohio.{{cite web|title=Winterbotham, Russ|url=http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/winterbotham_russ#sthash.Xk4PADwI.dpuf|publisher=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction|accessdate=28 May 2015}} While writing, his full-time job was fiction editor for Scripps-Howard NEA news service.{{Cite magazine |date=June 1958 |title=Editor's Report |url=https://archive.org/stream/1958-06_IF#page/n3/mode/2up |magazine=If |type=editorial |pages=3–5}}
Bibliography
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- [https://books.google.com/books?id=JS5mHAAACAAJ Curious and Unusual Deaths] (Girard, Kansas:Haldeman-Julius, 1929)
- Maximo, the Amazing Superman (Big Little Book, 1940)
- [http://manybooks.net/titles/winterbothamrr2222622226.html 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
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- {{cite encyclopedia
|url= http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/winterbotham_russ
|accessdate= 2013-03-04
|title= Winterbotham, Russ
|date= December 9, 2012
|encyclopedia= The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
}}
- Horn, Maurice (1976). "Winterbotham, Russell (1904-1971)" The World Encyclopedia of Comics
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Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:American male novelists
Category:American science fiction writers
Category:American comics writers
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