World’s Best Comics: Golden Age Sampler (Oct. 2003):
“The Construction Racket”
by Jerry Siegel, Paul Cassidy, Paul Lauretta

World's Best Comics: Golden Age Sampler

Actual Cover Title: Archive Sampler: World's Best Comics: Classics from the Golden Age of Comics

Story Title: “The Construction Racket”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Oct. 2003

Publisher:
Written by: Jerry Siegel
Art by: Paul Cassidy, Paul Lauretta

11 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Superman (Clark Kent)	Methodist / Kryptonian religion	Kryptonians; Super Friends...  The Justice League		13,409
Lois Lane	Catholic	Raleigh College [Superman's girlfriend, then wife]		3,859
Sam Goetz	indeterminate	[construction worker]		1
Mr. Jackson	manifestly non-religious	[business owner]		1
Mayor Hansen	religious (nominal)	[mayor]		1
George Taylor (3-panel cameo)	religious/ethical	[Clark Kent's first boss]		65
Sergeant Clancy (2-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[police]		1
John (2-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[murdered head of construction firm]		1
John's wife (2-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[1st app: Superman (vol. 1) #6 (Sep.-Oct. 1940)]		1
Grimes Brothers (business/store name)		[business owner]		1
The King of Siam (Ananda Mahidol Mahidol) (mentioned)	Buddhist	[king]		2

This comic was reprinted from: Superman (vol. 1) #6 (Sep.-Oct. 1940): "The Construction Scam".

An alternative form of this story's title is: “The Four Fingered Man”. Webpage for World's Best Comics: Golden Age Sampler (Oct. 2003) created 4 April 2018. Last modified 4 April 2018.

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