
Earle Bergey's Teleportation Peril, Startling Stories July 1947
This cover hilariously predicts teleportation technology as a glowing ring apparatus operated by a single dial console — decades before quantum entanglement research would reveal how laughably underpowered that would be. Earle Bergey's signature glamour-in-peril composition frames a terrified dark-haired woman suspended in a luminous energy vortex, her red dress billowing, while a suited man frantically reaches toward the device's controls. The golden energy halo and dramatic magenta aura are quintessential Bergey bravura.
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”





