Russell Robert Winterbotham (August 1, 1904 – June 9, 1971) was an American writer of

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and

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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

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's western comic ''

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'' and the

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''Chris Welkin, Planeteer''. Winterbotham was born in

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, 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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