{"id":3242,"date":"2024-08-07T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:42:35","slug":"minor-super-villain-581-henry-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3242","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 581: HENRY SHORT"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Cyclone Comics 005, 1940)<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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<\/i> have to pay your taxes if you’re a criminal, man! That’s how they got Al Capone!<\/p>\n

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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<\/i> be better for your prison reputation than being pulled in by the IRS, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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