Henry Furst
Henry Furst
The “fiery old newspaper tycoon†who, “by fair means and foul, built the nationwide chain of Furst newspapers,†a man of few scruples and fabulous wealth who has for years pursued, to the point of obsession, the secret of Superman's identity.
In February 1958, after imbibing a “new formula that imitates the symptoms of approaching death,†Furst summons Clark Kent to his “deathbed†and successfully tricks him into revealing his identity by invoking the solemnity of a “dying man’s†last request. Fortunately for Superman, however, the drug Furst took had “hallucinatory side-effects,†and Furst recovers from its influence with only a mistaken recollection of what Clark Kent revealed to him (Act No. 237: “Superman’s Exposed Identityâ€) (TGSB).
