 Originally they were the respective "hosts" of the EC-style horror comic anthologies "House of Mystery" and "House of Secrets", which ran from the 1950s through 1983—Cain debuting in "House of Mystery" #175 (1968) and Abel in "DC Special" #4 and "House of Secrets" #81 (both 1969).During the 1970s, they also co-hosted the horror/humor anthology "Plop!