Startling Stories, July 1947 (Vol. 15, No. 3) — Earle Bergey Cover for "The Kingdom of the Blind"
Earle Bergey's cover for the July 1947 issue of Startling Stories illustrates the lead novel, "The Kingdom of the Blind" by George O. Smith. It depicts Bergey's trademark glamour-in-peril style: a terrified woman in a red dress suspended within a glowing energy ring, while a man in a suit reaches toward a control console. The issue also features "The Life Detour," a Hall of Fame classic by David H. Keller.
Classic space opera-adjacent weird science: a woman trapped in a glowing energy field while a man desperately mans the controls is peak Bergey pulp melodrama. The teleportation-or-disintegration ambiguity cranks the threat level to maximum.
“A SCIENTIFICTION NOVEL COMPLETE IN THIS ISSUE STARTLING STORIES JULY 15¢ EARLE BERGEY A THRILLING PUBLICATION THE LIFE DETOUR A Hall of Fame Classic By DAVID H. KELLER The KINGDOM OF THE BLIND An Amazing Complete Novel By GEORGE O. SMITH JULY 1947”
