Nat Grayson

Nat Grayson

The unscrupulous president of the Akme Construction Company, and the mastermind behind a murderous scheme to "destroy his greatest business rival," Bruce Constructions Inc., and thereby "dominate the construction field," by deliberately causing a series of fatal construction "accidents" on the site of the Atlas Building—a major Bruce Constructions Inc. building project—so as to seriously delay the skyscraper's construction and prevent Bruce Constructions "from completing th' job within th' time required in our contract!" Seized by Superman in Fall 1939 and strangled by the throat until he agrees to make a full confession of his crimes ("Remember!" warns Superman. "If you don't confess, I'll come back and dish out the justice you deserve with my bare hands!"), Grayson is taken into custody by the Metropolis police and ultimately sentenced to die in the electric chair (S No. 2/3: "Superman and the Skyscrapers"). (TGSB)