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TSHIRT_0025 Officially Licensed Misfits Merchandise
Misfits Classic Crimson Ghost T-Shirt
In December of 1978, after less than two months, the new Misfits lineup began playing shows together. Over the course of 1979, The Misfits further evolved the horror elements of their music and their imagery, influenced by The Damned, who had recently regrouped in the proto-Goth lineup of the Machine Gun Etiquette album.
Glenn and Jerry adopted a skull mascot for the band from an old poster they'd come across for a 1946 Republic movie serial, The Crimson Ghost (aka Cyclotrode X).
Two more records followed on their Plan 9 label, the Horror Business EP and the "Night of the Living Dead" single, respectively.
They began to establish a small but loyal fan base and decided to start their own fan club, which they called the Fiend Club.
Glenn operated the Fiend Club from his mother's basement on Macarthur Ave in Lodi, where he would print out t-shirts, assemble records, mail out merchandise catalogs, book gigs, and respond to fan mail, making the Misfits exemplary practitioners of the DIY ethic.
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