Question: Which companion series to "House of Secrets" featured a fictional international crime cartel?
Context: Elizabeth Verville is an American civil servant in the Senior Executive Service (SES) who served as acting deputy assistant secretary of state (DAS) for international crime in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.  Verville led the U.S. delegations to the United Nations (UN) in developing multilateral treaties, such as the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC), which was passed in 2000 to combat transnational organized crime, and the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).  Prior to her role as acting DAS, she served on the National Security Council as director of global affairs for international crime, counternarcotics, and counterterrorism.  She also previously served as deputy director of the first U.S. interagency office created to protect the nation’s critical information infrastructure. The House of Mystery is the name of several horror, fantasy, and mystery anthology comic book magazine series published by DC Comics.  It had a companion series, "House of Secrets". The House of Secrets is the name of several mystery, fantasy, and horror anthology comic book series published by DC Comics.  It is notable for being the title that introduced the character Swamp Thing.  It had a companion series titled "House of Mystery". Tales from the Crypt was a bi-monthly horror comic anthology series published by EC Comics from 1950 to 1955, producing 27 issues.  (The first issue with the title was #20, previously having been "International Comics" (#1-#5); "International Crime Patrol" (#6); "Crime Patrol" (#7-#16) and "The Crypt of Terror" (#17-#19) for a total of 46 issues in the series.)  Along with its sister titles, "The Haunt of Fear" and "The Vault of Horror", "Tales from the Crypt" was popular, but in the late 1940s and early 1950s comic books came under attack from parents, clergymen, schoolteachers and others who believed the books contributed to illiteracy and juvenile delinquency.  In April and June 1954, highly publicized Congressional subcommittee hearings on the effects of comic books upon children left the industry shaken.  With the subsequent imposition of a highly restrictive Comics Code, EC Comics publisher Bill Gaines cancelled "Tales from the Crypt" and its two companion horror titles, along with the company's remaining crime and science fiction series in September 1954.  All EC titles have been reprinted at various times since their demise, and stories from the horror series have been adapted for television and film. The State Security Service of Georgia (SSSG) (Georgian: სახელმწიფო უსაფრთხოების სამსახური ) is a secretive militarized government agency of the Republic of Georgia, which covers a broad spectrum of tasks to preserve national security in accordance to state legislature and relevant laws.  Its missions are to protect the constitutional order, sovereignty, territorial integrity and military potential of Georgia from illegal acts of special services and individuals of foreign countries; to prevent violent and unconstitutional change of order and state authority.  Further it is to ensure economic security and fight terrorism on national and international level, transnational organized crime and international crime as well as carry out measures towards prevention, detection and suppression of corruption.  It is also responsible for protecting state secrets.  The newly established independent agency is a former subordinate branch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia and has been activated in 2015. The Maggia is a fictional international crime syndicate appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.  The organization exists in Marvel's main shared universe, known as Earth-616, as well as other Marvel Earths/Universes.  Its structure is somewhat similar to the Mafia (which is itself almost never referred to in Marvel stories), but the Maggia differs in that it frequently hires supervillains and mad scientists to work for them.  The characters Count Nefaria and his daughter Madame Masque have both been leaders of an important Maggia family. VULTURE is a fictional international crime cartel in the DC Comics universe.  VULTURE first appears in "House of Mystery" #160 (July 1966), and was created by Jack Miller and Joe Certa. Kano is a fictional character from the "Mortal Kombat" fighting game franchise.  He is one of the series' original characters, having made his debut in "Mortal Kombat" in 1992.  A calculating thug, mercenary, and member of the international crime cartel known as the Black Dragon, Kano is also the top fugitive and persistent nemesis of Sonya Blade and Jax Briggs of the Special Forces, which has been his primary storyline throughout the course of his "Mortal Kombat" series appearances, and in "Mortal Kombat 3", he also becomes the general of Outworld emperor Shao Kahn's armies.  In the 2011 series reboot, he additionally poses as a crooked Special Forces informant and serves as Kahn's arms dealer.  His most recognizable feature is his cybernetic metal faceplate that houses an infrared eye laser. The International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS) is a large scale international survey project about crime and victimization.  The project was set up to fill the gap in adequate recording of offenses by the police for purposes of comparing crime rates in different nations and to provide a crime index independent of police statistics as an alternative standardized measure.  The ICVS is the most far-reaching program of standardized sample surveys to look at a householders' experience with crime, policing, crime prevention, and feelings of insecurity in a large number of nations.  It also allows for analysis of how risks of crime vary among different groups of populations across social and demographic lines.  There have been 6 rounds of surveys to date (1989-1992-1996-2000-2004/05-2010).  Surveys have been done on 80 countries and provides information about criminal victimization in 41 countries and 66 main(capital) cities from all continents. Rick Mofina is a Canadian author of crime fiction and thriller novels.  He grew up in Belleville, Ontario, and began writing short stories in school, selling his first short story at the age of fifteen.  As a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the International Thriller Writers, the International Crime Writers Association, the Crime Writers' Association and Crime Writers of Canada, Rick continues to be a featured panelist at mystery conferences across the United States and Canada.
Answer: House of Mystery