DC Comics

DC Comics is a comic book publisher and is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment, which is currently owned by the film and television company Warner Bros.
== History with horror fiction ==
Though DC had very few exclusively horror comics, many of the company's early adventure features had elements of horror, including the mystery man Dr. Occult and early Batman adventures where he was as likely to fight vampires (the Mad Monk) and mad scientists (Prof. Milo) as he was to fight plainclothes criminals. Other supernatural superheroes such as The Spectre would later appear, though aside from spooky elements, most of the series featured conventional superhero adventures.
In the 1950s, the increased popularity of horror and science fiction anthology comics, DC started to publish their own anthologies series beginning with House of Mystery. This was followed by similarly toned anthology series House of Secrets and Tales of the Unexpected. However, due to the rise of the Comics Code Authority, which prohibited many horror tropes, the horror was light and generally science fiction and strange tales where the focus. Tales of the Unexpected from the beginning was more focused on science fiction while House of Mystery and House of Secrets eventually transitioned into adventure and superhero comics, with House of Secrets ending in 1966. In 1969, DC Comics debuted The Witching Hour, a horror series with three witches as hosts/narrators and 1971, the company launched four horror books; Ghosts, The Sinister House of Secret Love and The Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love, the latter two focusing on horror-romance stories. The latter two titles soon after changed to Secrets of the Sinister House and Forbidden Tales of the Dark Mansion, where they abandoned the romance angle. Also released that year was Weird War Tales, which contained horror, science fiction and dark fantasy stories combined with the war genre. During this time, DC relaxed some of the rules against horror elements and while instruments of death and horror may not be used, vampires, werewolves and other monsters of classic literature and myth were now permitted.
The long-running titles House of Mystery and House of Secrets, originally transitioned back to it's horror roots, introducing horror host characters Cain and Abel with Cain running the titular House of Mystery and Abel running the House of Secrets.
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