(Cyclone Comics 005, 1940)
Henry Short is a pretty middling super-villain (it's been a particularly dry stretch of comics, what can I say) but he certainly has the confidence for the major leagues. He's a guy who lives in a castle so nice that it is pointed out by tour guides but who pays a hundred bucks a year in taxes and when local treasury agents come around to inquire about this he openly threatens to put them in the hospital. This is a bad idea, by the way! Governments may be famously okay with rich people avoiding taxes through means like legal loopholes but straight-up refusing to pay is a surefire way to bring the hammer down on yourself.
And that's without adding in the fact that Short's business model is extorting rich people by threatening to turn them insane with a special chair. You especially have to pay your taxes if you're a criminal, man! That's how they got Al Capone!
All in all, Henry Short is lucky that all he got was a butler to the head. Getting caught by a super-hero has to be better for your prison reputation than being pulled in by the IRS, right?
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