Russell R. Winterbotham

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".

He also wrote scripts for Fred Harman's western comic Red Ryder[1] and the newspaper comic strip Chris Welkin, Planeteer.

[2] Winterbotham was born in Salina, Kansas, and died in Bay Village, Ohio.

[3] While writing, his full-time job was fiction editor for Scripps-Howard NEA news service.

Winterbotham's "Madness on Luna" was the cover story in the April 1939 Amazing Stories