Cline wrote that Tyler's characterization, in his last serial role, was more vivid than that in "Adventures of Captain Marvel" but slightly less memorable. He added that Tyler had an "almost uncanny" resemblance to the comic strip character. However, Pasko said that he "seems old beyond his years, and not at all the vigorous young man who could plausibly do what the script demands of him." Harmon and Glut described him as wooden in his speech and movements, "the Gary Cooper of B films".