The Pulp Gadgeteer hero search

[Dannyalcatraz]

Teleportation is pretty rare in pulp fiction, but I found this:

1919: Erle Cox (1873-1950) was one of the rare pre-WW2 Australian writers who made a profession out of science fiction. His best known work is "Out of the Silence" (as a serial, 1919, as a novel, 1925). In the novel, Alan Dundas, an Australian homesteader, is digging a pit when he uncovers a door into a technologically-advanced subterranean complex. In one chamber lies a woman's body in suspended animation, along with directions on how to revive her. She is Earani, the survivor of a race which twenty-five million years ago ruled the world with its advanced technology and superhuman mental abilities. Once Earani has acclimated herself to the present she finds it not at all to her liking-there are too many non-whites. One of her ancestors almost wiped out all the non-white races, and she intends to finish the job in the present. Her science is capable of doing so, and her abilities of teleportation and mind control mean that those who oppose her plan are mastered by her. But a jealous farmer surprises Earani and stabs her to death.

Also, while it couldn't be used at the protagonist's will, both John Carter and Adam Strange stories involved teleportation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carter_of_Mars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Strange