Nelson Bond, A Bibliography in Progress

NELSON S(lade) BOND
(1908 - )

A Bibliography in Progress

Compiled by Peter Ruber
(Incorporates Data Provided by Nelson Bond)
Copyright 2003 by Peter Ruber
Last Update: 1-20-03

[For a biographical essay about Nelson Bond, elsewhere on The Pulp Rack, please click here.]

A: MAGAZINE FICTION (Bond's definitions)
(ss) = short story [1,000-9,000 words] (193)
(nv) = novelette [9,500-35,000 words] (56)
(n) = novel [40,000 words and up] (9)
(incl. 2 serial novels)

ACE SPORTS

Gridiron Goof (ss) - Dec 1937
Bench Warmer Chap (ss) - Dec 1937
- [as by Ralph Powers]
Hoop Hokum (ss) - Jan 1938
Double-Backed Puckster (ss) - Jan 1938
- [as by Ralph Powers]
The Hate Rink (ss) - Feb 1938
Devil Wingman's Due (ss) - Mar 1938
High Hat Halfback - Oct 1938
Rough-Cut Diamond (ss) - Oct 1938
- [as by Ralph Powers]
Bowl Bugaboo (ss) - Feb 1939
Jack of All Bases (nv) - Jun 1939
Front Page Backstop (nv) - Aug 1939
Mutineers on the Gridiron - Dec 1939
Rookie Mastermind (nv) - Apr 1941

ACTION STORIES

The Infinite Foe (ss) - Oct 1940
Exiles of the Dawn World (nv) - Dec 1940
Star of Revolt (ss) - Feb 1942

ALL AMERICAN FOOTBALL

The Destiny Backfield (nv) - Fall 1938
- [as by Lee Bond]
"Plow 'Em, Farmer!" (nv) - Fall 1941
March of the Pigskin Robots (nv) - Wint 1942
Between the Halves (ss) - Fall 1943

AMAZING STORIES

The Priestess Who Rebelled (ss) - Oct 1939
Fugitives from Earth (ss) - Dec 1939

Sons of the Deluge (s-2)
- Jan 1940
- Feb 1940

The Scientific Pioneer (ss) - Mar 1940
The Scientific Pioneer Returns (ss) - Nov 1940
The Secret of Lucky Logan (ss) - Apr 1942
The Return of Lancelot Biggs (ss) - May 1942
Horsense Hank Does His Bit (ss) - May 1942

Gods of the Jungle (s-2)
- Jun 1942
- Jul 1942

Peter Pettigrew's Prisoner - Jul 1942
Horsense Hank in Parallel Worlds (nv) - Aug 1942
The Love Song of Lancelot Biggs (ss) - Sep 1942
Mr. Biggs Goes to Town (nv) - Oct 1942
That Worlds May Live (n) - Apr 1943
The Ordeal of Lancelot Biggs (ss) - May 1943

ARGOSY

Tell Me About Tomorrow (ss) - Dec 13, 1941
Miracles Made Easy (ss) - Apr 15, 1942
Don't Fool With Phantoms (ss) - Dec 1942
Football in the Family (nv) - Nov/Dec 1943
Uncommon Castaway (ss) - Jun 1945

ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION

The Einstein Inshoot (ss) - Nov 1938
Lightship, Ho! (ss) - Jul 1939
Stowaway (ss) - Aug 1939
Legacy (ss) - Dec 1940
Magic City (nv) - Feb 1941
The Geometrics of Johnny Day (ss) - Jul 1941
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (ss) - Apr 1942

ASTONISHING STORIES

Down the Dimensions (ss) - Apr 1937
The Day We Celebrate (ss) - Jan 1941
Land of No Return (nv) - Apr 1943

BASKETBALL STORIES

Gawky for Guard (nv) - Win 37/38

BASEBALL STORIES

The Basepath Burglar (nv) - Sum 1940
"Baseball Is a Business" (nv) - Sum 1942
Slugger with the Strikeout Bat (ss) - Spr 1943
Taming of the Screwball (ss) - Sum 1943

BEST SPORTS
Glory for Castoff Basketeers (ss) - Mar 1939

BLUE BOOK

Exiles of Time (n) - May 1940
Martian Caravan (nv) - Dec 1940
Dr. Fuddle's Fingers (ss) - Aug 1940
Mr. Snow White (ss) - Mar 1941
The Abduction of Abner Greer (ss) - Jun 1941
The Bookshop (ss) - Oct 1941
The Remarkable Talent of Egbert Haw (ss) - Dec 1941
The Magic Staircase (nv) - Feb 1942
The Bacular Clock (ss) - Jul 1942
Another World Begins (ss) - Nov 1942
The Idiosyncrasies of Bolivar Jones (ss) - Dec 1942
Pat Pending's Periscoop (ss) - Jan 1943
One's Got to be Best (ss) - Mar 1943
Miracular and Importulant (ss) - Apr 1943
The Ring of Iscariot (ss) - Jun 1943
Somewhere on the Home Front (ss) - Jul 1943
Nothing in the Rules (ss) - Aug 1943
F.O.B. Baghdad (ss) - Nov 1943
Pat Pending's Invisibelt (ss) - Jan 1944
The Masked Marvel (ss) - Dec 1943
The Five Lives of Robert Jordan (nv) - Apr 1945
Pat Pending Returns (ss) - Jun 1945
Music's Got Charms (ss) - Nov 1945
The Mask of Medusa (ss) - Dec 1945
Magnifular and Marvaceous (ss) - Apr 1946
The Greater Gizmo (ss) - May 1946
Conquerors' Isle (ss) - Jun 1946
My Nephew Norvell (ss) - Jul 1946
The Gripes of Wraith (ss) - Aug 1946
Pat Pending, Detectivator (ss) - Oct 1946
The Enchanted Pencil (ss) - Nov 1946
Knights Must Fall (ss) - Jan 1947
Double Trouble for Pat Pending (ss) - Apr 1947
A Matter of a Pinion (ss) - Mar 1948
Last Inning (ss) - May 1948
Much Ado About Pending (ss) - Aug 1948
The Last Outpost (nv) - Oct 1948
Daze Without End (ss) - Nov 1948
Petersen's Eye (ss) - Mar 1949
The Song (ss) - Apr 1949
Strikes to Spare (ss) - May 1949
Bird of Prey (ss) - Aug 1949
The Spinsters (ss) - Jan 1950
The Pet Shop (ss) - Mar 1950
And Lo! the Bird (ss) - Sep 1950
Life Goes On (ss) - Oct 1950
To People a New World (ss) - Nov 1950
It's a Fast New World (ss) - Dec 1950
Private Line to Tomorrow (ss) - Jan 1951
Black Magic (ss) - Feb 1951
The Unpremeditated Wizard (ss) - Mar 1951
This Is the Land (ss) - Apr 1951
The Silent Planet (ss) - May 1951
Time Exposure (ss) - Jul 1951
The World of William Gresham (ss) - Nov 1951
The Dark Door (ss) - May 1952
A Rosy Future for Roderick (ss) - Jun 1953
Spaceways (ss) - Aug 1953
Button, Button (ss) - Mar 1954

BLUE RIBBON SPORTS

Spite Silks (ss) - Aug 1938
Baskets for Sale (ss) - Apr 1939

BULL'S EYE SPORTS

Born to the Gridiron (nv) - Win 1938/39
Scooter! (ss) - Win 1938/39
- [as by Don Newell]
The Champ Runner-Up (ss - Spr 1939
A Punt, A Pass--and a Powerhouse (nv) - Fall 1939

CHAMPION SPORTS

Grudge Gloves (ss) - Jul 1937
Vagabond Glover (ss) - Mar 1938
Code of the Basketeer (ss) - May 1938
Fence-Buster's Waterloo (nv) - Oct 1938
Devil On the Wing (ss) - Jan 1939
Rinkman's Freezeout (nv) - Mar 1939
Puckster on the Prod (ss) - Mar 1939
Rink Rebel (ss) - May 1939

COMPLETE SPORTS

The Kid's Okay (ss) - Nov 1939

DETECTIVE BOOK

Murder -- C.O.D. (ss) - Fall 1941

DETECTIVE TALES

Killer's Date-Line (nv) - May 1942

DETECTION FICTION WEEKLY

Racket Under Wraps (ss) - Oct [?] 1938
In Your Hat (ss) - Nov 19, 1938

DIME SPORTS

Balloon Head (ss) - Nov 1937
Rink Lawyer (ss) - Jun 1938
Touchdown Medicine (ss) - Aug 1938
Reverse English (ss) - Feb 11, 1939

DYNAMIC SCIENCE STORIES

The Mercurian Menace (ss) - Feb 1939
The Message From the Void (ss) - Feb 1939
- [as by Hubert Mavity]

ESQUIRE

The Battle of Blue Trout Basin (ss) - May 1937
The Man Who Walked Through Glass (ss) - Nov 1938
Vital Factor (ss) - Aug 1951

EXCITING DETECTIVE

Murder for a Million (nv) - Win 1941

EXTENSION MAGAZINE

Crackers in Bedlam (ss) - May 1939

FANTASTIC ADVENTURES

The Monster from Nowhere (ss) - Jul 1939
Amazing Invent'n of Wilberforce Weems (ss) - Sep 1939
F.O.B. Venus (ss) - Nov 1939
Lancelot Biggs Cooks a Pirate (ss) - Feb 1940
The Man Who Weighed Minus Twelve (ss) - Mar 1940
The Madness of Lancelot Biggs (ss) - Apr 1940
The Judging of the Priestess (nv) - Apr 1940
Lancelot Biggs: Master Navigator (ss) - May 1940
The Genius of Lancelot Biggs (ss) - Jun 1940
The Fertility of Dalrymple Todd (ss) - Aug 1940
Brother Michel (ss) - May 1942
Union in Gehenna (nv) - Oct 1942
"When Freemen Shall Stand" (n) - Nov 1942
Saint Mulligan (ss) - May 1943

FANTASTIC UNIVERSE

Pawns of Tomorrow (nv) - May 1957
Lighter Than You Think (ss) - Aug 1957
Case History (ss) - Apr 1958

FIVE NOVELS MONTHLY

Suicide Silks (nv) - Apr 1938
Death Takes a Sky-Ride (nv) - Jan 1943

FIGHT STORIES

Dream-Book Champ (ss) - Apr 1943

FOOTBALL ACTION

Power-Man (nv) - Fall 1942
Wrong Way Wingback (ss) - Fall 1943

FOOTBALL STORIES

The Lad With the Million-Dollar Toe (nv) - Fall 1940
Touchdown Twister (nv) - Fall 1941
Sorehead (ss) - Wint 1942
Quick-Kicking Hick (nv) - Fall 1943

MAMMOTH DETECTIVE

Murder Makes the Kingrow (ss) - May 1942
Death Stalks by Night (ss) - Jan 1943
Poison on the Half Shell (ss) - Mar 1943
Death Holds the Stirrups (nv) - May 1943

McCLURE NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE

The Refinement of Merrivel Jones (ss) - Feb 7, 1935
A Dash of Local Color (ss) - Aug 14, 1935
Story Stuff (ss) - Aug 26, 1935
Just Once Too Often - Oct 1936

NEW DETECTIVE

Framework for Murder (ss) - Mar 1943

ORB

Command Performance (ss) - Vol 2-No 3

PARADE

The Word of Power (ss) - Spr 1936

PLANET STORIES
Dictator of Time (nv) - Spr 1940
The Ultimate Salient (nv) - Fall 1940
The Castaway (ss) - Win 1940
Beyond Light (ss) - Win 1940
Revolt on Io (nv) - Spr 1941
Shadrach (nv) - Fall 1941
The Lorelei Death (nv) - Win 1941
Captain Chaos (ss) - Sum 1942
Colossus of Chaos (nv) - Win 1942
Castaways of Eros (nv) - Win 1943
Trouble on Tycho (ss) - Spr 1943
Phantom Out of Time (nv) - Fall 1943
Wanderers of the Wolf Moon (nv) - Spr 1944

PUBLIC LEDGER SYNDICATE

Campus Love (ss) - Oct 6, 1935

POPULAR SPORTS

Death Dons a Disguise (nv) - Jun 1939
Back to the Bushes (nv) - Aug 1939
Rose Bowl Fever (nv) - Dec 1939
Million Dollar Infield (n) - Apr 1940
Play-Off (ss) - Win 1941

ROANOKE RADIUS

The Day We Celebrate (ss) - Nov 1956
- [#2 of this title; different from story that appeared in the Jan 1941, Astonishing Stories]

REDBOOK

Herman and the Mermaid (ss) - Jul 1943
Wedding Gift (ss) - Mar 1946

REAL SPORTS

The Mighty Atom (ss) - Feb 1938
The Phantom Blocker (ss) - Jan 1939

RED STAR ADVENTURES

Bright Blue Booty (nv) - Jan 1941

SCIENCE FICTION

Proxies on Venus (ss) - Jun 1940

SCRIBNER'S

Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies (ss) - Nov 1937
The Sportsman (ss) - Feb 1938

SAINT FRANCIS JOURNAL

Passes One in Jerusalem (ss) - Aug 1938

SHORT STORIES

Desert Law (ss) - Sep 25, 1941

SPORTS ACTION

The Court Spark Plug (ss) - Feb 1939

SPORTS FICTION

The Kid Brother (ss) - Apr 1938

SPORTS WINNERS

Pigskin Payoff (ss) - Feb 1938
Glass Arm Gardener (ss) - Apr 1938
Sucker Punch (ss) - Apr 1938
- [as by Cleve Campbell]

SOUTHERN STATES SPORTSMAN

The Conquest of Old Hickory (ss) - Feb 1936

SUPER SCIENCE

The World Within (ss) - May 1942

TEN DETECTIVE ACES

Doom on Delivery (ss) - Sep 1939

TEN STORY BOOK

Mr. John (ss) - Dec 1938

TEN STORY SPORTS

The Horseshoe Kid (ss) - Sep 1938
The Play Plottin' Kid (ss) - Jun 1939
Mudder McCree (ss) - Aug 1939

THRILLING FOOTBALL

Front Page Glory (nv) - #1 1939
Wings for the Flying Dutchman (ss) - Fall 1940

THRILLING SPORTS

Blind Spot (ss) - Jul 1940

THRILLING WONDER STORIES

Prisoner's Base (ss) - May 1940
Parallel in Time (ss) - Jun 1940
A Problem in Diatonics (ss) - Aug 1940
"Shall Stay These Couriers" (ss) - Nov 1940
Luxury Liner (nv) - Feb 1942
Jessifer Rides Again (ss) - Oct 1942
Pawns of Chaos (n) - Apr 1943
Peril on Phoebus (nv) - Fall 1943

TOP NOTCH

The Making of Sailor Jack (ss) - Sep 1935
The Voice of the Curious Cube (ss) - Mar 1937

THE TOWNSMAN

Night Rider (ss) - Oct 1936

TORONTO STAR WEEKLY

On Schedule (ss) - Feb 4, 1939

12 SPORTS ACES

Two-Mile Merry-Go-Round (ss) - Dec 1938
Three-Strike Comeback (nv) - May/Jun 1939
Hot-Shot Shotput (ss) - May/Jun 1939
- [as by Ralph Powers]
Cannonball Comeback (ss) - Sep 1939

UNIVERSE

"Down Will Come the Sky" (ss) - Jun 1953

UNKNOWN WORLDS

Cartwright's Camera (ss) - Nov 1940
The Fountain (nv) - Jun 1941
"Take My Drum to England" (ss) - Aug 1941
Prescience (ss) - Oct 1941
Occupation: Demigod (ss) - Dec 1941
Al Haddon's Lamp (nv) - Jun 1942

WEIRD TALES

Unusual Romance of Ferdinand Pratt (ss) - Sep 1940
Honeymoon in Bedlam (ss) - Jan 1941
The Downfall of Lancelot Biggs (ss) - Mar 1941
"Where Are You, Mr. Biggs?" (ss) - Sep 1941
The Ghost of Lancelot Biggs (ss) - Jan 1942
Visibility: Zero (ss) - Sep 1942
The Master of Cotswold (nv) - Jan 1944

Misc:
Pipeline to Paradise (ss) - 1995
[written for book publication: WHEEL OF FORTUNE]

B: BOOKS

(Nelson Bond never wrote a novel for book publication. Consequently, the following collections have thus far reprinted 94 of his 258 magazine stories. The only exceptions are the 1949 Prime Press publication of "Exiles of Time" from the May 1940 issue of "Blue Book," and the 2002 Wildside Press paperback publication of "That Worlds May Live," a novel that originally appeared in the April 1943 issue of "Amazing Stories.")

MR. MERGENTHWIRKER'S LOBBLIES AND OTHER FANTASTIC TALES.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1946.

- Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies
- The Magic Staircase
- The Remarkable Talent of Egbert Haw
- Johnny Carwright's Camera
- The Master of Cotswold
- The Einstein Inshoot
- The Fountain
- Dr. Fuddle's Fingers
- Conqueror's [sic] Isle
- Socrates of the South Forty (The Scientific Pioneer)
- The Bacular Clock
- Union in Gehenna
- The Bookshop

THE THIRTY-FIRST OF FEBRUARY.
New York: Gnome Press, 1949.

- The Sportsman
- The Mask of Medusa
- My Nephew Norvell
- The Ring
- The Gripes of Wraith
- The Cunning of the Beast
- The Five Lives of Robert Jordan
- "Take My Drum to England"
- Saint Mulligan
- The Monster from Nowhere
- The Man Who Walked Through Glass
- The Enchanted Pencil
- Pilgrimage

EXILES OF TIME.
Philadelphia: Prime Press, 1949.

THE REMARKABLE EXPLOITS OF LANCELOT BIGGS: SPACEMAN.
New York: Doubleday & Co., 1950.
Berkeley Heights, NJ: Wildside Press, [2001].

(This collection contains 11 of the 13 Biggs stories Bond
wrote about this character. They are laid out as 27
chapters and not by story titles to give the impression
this is a novel.)

- F.O.B. Venus
- Lancelot Biggs Cooks a Pirate
- The Madness of Lancelot Biggs
- Lancelot Biggs: Master Navigator
- Honeymoon in Bedlam
- The Downfall of Lancelot Biggs
- "Where Are You, Mr. Biggs?"
- The Ghost of Lancelot Biggs
- The Love Song of Lancelot Biggs
- Mr. Biggs Goes to Town
- The Ordeal of Lancelot Biggs

NO TIME LIKE THE FUTURE.
New York: Avon Publications, 1954.

- Vital Factor
- The Voice from the Curious Cube
- Button, Button
- Conqueror's [sic] Isle
- Life Goes On
- Uncommon Castaway
- The Cunning of the Beast
- The Last Outpost
- And Lo! The Bird
- This Is the Land
- The Word [sic] of William Gresham
- The Silent Planet

NIGHTMARES AND DAYDREAMS.
Sauk City, Wisc.: Arkham House, 1968.

- To People a New World
- A Rosy Future for Roderick
- The Song
- Petersen's Eye
- The Abduction of Abner Greer
- Bird of Prey
- The Spinsters
- The Devil to Pay (Black Magic)
- "Down Will Come the Sky"
- The Pet Shop
- Al Haddon's Lamp
- Last Inning
- The Dark Door
- Much Ado About Pending
- Final Report

THE FAR SIDE OF NOWHERE.
Sauk City, Wisc.: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., 2002.

"It's About Time":
- Time Exposure
- Command Performance
- Parallel in Time
- Private Line to Tomorrow
- The Castaway
- The Message From the Void

"Odds Without End":
- The Battle of Blue Trout Basin
- The Unusual Romance of Ferdinand Pratt
- The Ballad of Blaster Bill
- Case History
- Herman and the Mermaid
- Double Trouble
- Proof of the Pudding
- Pawns of Tomorrow

"Family Circle":
- Magic City
- The Masked Marvel
- The Scientific Pioneer Returns
- Miracles Made Easy

"In Uffish Thought":
- The Amazing Invention of Wilberforce Weems
- Brother Michel
- Pipeline to Paradise
- The World Within
- The Geometrics of Johnny Day

"Wild Talents":
- Mr. Snow White
- The Unpremeditated Wizard
- The Secret of Lucky Logan
- The Fertility of Dalrymple Todd
- The Man Who Weighed Minus Twelve
- Occupation: Demigod

THAT WORLDS MAY LIVE.
Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2002.

OTHER WORLDS THAN OURS. (Awaiting publication)
Sauk City, Wisc.: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., 2004.

"The Fifth Dimension":
- Legacy
- Luxury Liner
- Phantom Out of Time
- Revolt on Io
- Jessifer Rides Again

"Siblings of the Sun":
- "Shadrach"
- Martian Caravan
- Wanderers of the Wolf Moon

"The Square Circle":
- Gods of the Jungle

"Order Out of Chaos":
- Colossus of Chaos
- Pawns of Chaos
- Captain Chaos

"Postscript To the Future":
- The Ultimate Salient

PROBABILITY ZERO -- (In Preparation)
Sauk City, Wisc.: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., 2006?

(Note: to contain all the Sam McGhee & Pat Pending stories, plus the uncollected Horsesense Hank Cleaver and Lancelot Biggs stories, 2 uncollected Lobblies and the first Lobblies from "Scribner's Magazine" (which was reprinted 57 years ago in his first book), and possibly the 1st Hank story (from that same collection), omitting the one reprinted in FAR SIDE. Also the short novel "Sons of the Deluge" from the Squared Circle series.

Copyright Peter Ruber

Links:
Arkham's Masters of Horror is available at Amazon.com by clicking here.]

The Remarkable Exploits of Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman, published by Wildside Press, is available from Amazon.com. Please click here to see sample pages and to get more info.

The Far Side of Nowhere, an Arkham House collection of 29 stories, is available from Amazon.com. Please click here.

That Worlds May Live, published by Wildside Press, is also available from Amazon.com. Please click here.

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