This is "Working for a While," a feature that spotlights the lesser-known jobs that our favorite superheroes have had over the years (mostly in their secret identities, but sometimes I'll feature examples of jobs superheroes have had in their costumed identities, as well).

Today, we look at Wally West's time working for the Internal Revenue Service. NOTE: Initially, I thought it'd be fun to have this on April 15th....but, well, it's a bit less fun now, for obvious reasons.

For a few years in the late 1980s/early 1990s, Wally West was dealing with some massive debt issues. In 1991's Flash #52 (by William Messner-Loebs, Greg LaRocque and Jose Marzan), Wally decided to just throw himself on the mercy of the Internal Revenue Service and see what they could do and, sure enough, they decided to put him to work!

Wally finds the guy pretty quickly (after an amusing back and forth where he debates whether to actually take the job - the mob offers him money to just kill the guy in question, since he also owes the mob money)...

As it turned out, the guy that they sent the Flash after had made his money on the stock market by breaking down the barriers between our world and Hell itself and then possessed a demon and then also created a small group of powerful elemental demons that served him. All of this just so that he could manipulate the stock market!

However, chasing the Flash around was so much trouble that he just decided to pay the debt off...

Wally was working for Treasury in the classic Flash #54 (the amazingly iconic "Nobody Dies. It's a rule.") issue....

Loebs' run was ending, though, so he had a storyline where an old Golden Age villain, the Icicle, decided to leave his fortune to the Flash when he died. The Icicle's grandson did not like this and he became the new Icicle and tried to kill the Flash. After defeating him, the Icicle's granddaughter also decided to fight the Flash, but in COURT!

However, after a clever storyline involving the Pied Piper (that I will probably spotlight on its own in the future), Wally had a change of heart and decided to give up his inheritance entirely to charity. It seemed like the Icicle's granddaughter was not moved, but in the end, the granddaughter decided to become the new Icicle herself and she offered to pay off Wally's debts...

Since the debts seemed to be done with when the new writer, Mark Waid, took over, it seems likely that that is how it got resolved. And so more Wally West, IRS agent!

Okay, folks, I'm sure you have plenty of suggestions for this new feature, so let me have 'em at brianc@cbr.com!