The best of the Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes: Gerry Carlyle

Carlyle, Gerry. Gerry Carlyle was created by Arthur K. Barnes (Jack Darrell, Pete Manx) and appeared in ten stories in Thrilling Wonder Stories from 1937 to 1946, beginning with “The Hothouse Planet” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, Oct. 1937); several of the stories were collected in Interplanetary Hunter (1956). Gerry Carlyle is the beautiful galactic big game hunter, a sort of Frank Buck Rogers, who works for the London Interplanetary Zoo. She captures dangerous alien beasts on far distant and often hazardous alien worlds, from the saw-tongued whiposaurs on Venus to the ten-foot-tall Saturnian Dermaphos, and brings them back to the Zoo. Carlyle is assisted by her bold and clever sidekick Tommy Strike, with whom Carlyle has a love/hate relationship; he is certain that no woman is his superior, and consistently tries (and fails) to prove it.