Green Lantern #14 (1944)

Alan Scott's neighbors argue all night about the husband not finding a job, and after a week with no sleep he changes to Green Lantern and flies to the best employment agency in town to get one so they'll quiet down. When the business owner sees the costumed crusader coming through his doors he panics. A minute later a notorious gangster, the Lisper, enters and sees Green Lantern, then shoots the owner of the employment agency. Green Lantern catches up to one of the Lisper's men, who's just gotten a job at a rich household, who also panics and runs into the path of a truck to escape the hero. Green Lantern has Doiby take the criminal's papers and take the job to try and find out what the Lisper's game is. The Lisper and a few other gangsters show up to check up on him, and see through his disguise, but Green Lantern shows up to even the odds. Inevitably he's hit over the head with a wooden chair, and the Lisper ties the two up in bags and leaves them in a sewer tunnel to suffocate. Green Lantern cuts their way out with his ring and puts everything together: the Lisper exploited the employment agency to infiltrate members of his gang into homes all over the city as servants. Fortunately, they turn out not to be in a sewer tunnel but a telephone conduit, and Green Lantern's able to use his ring to call people all over the city and warn them they might be in danger if they hired staff from that agency. In doing so he also overhears the Lisper in the loft of a famous sculptor, whose statues Green Lantern brings to life to beat the gangsters senseless. Hearing Green Lantern's problem with his neighbors, Doiby offers to give the husband a job, but they turn out to be midgets, and him too much of an "arteest" to take a menial position, leaving Alan Scott back at square one.