The Evilive tour hits Denver’s Mercury Cafe, September 29, 1982. Top photo: Robo, Glenn, and Doyle looking like a set of Misfits action figures (note the attentive fan with a Necros sticker acr...
It’s five o’clock somewhere: Misfits bass player Jerry Only winds down with some suds, date and photographer unknown.
The Misfits live at the East Side Club in Philadelphia, August 1981. Clockwise from top left: Jerry Only makes fingerless gloves seem cool, Glenn Danzig emoting with no shirt (behind him Doyle’...
They’re lovin’ it: Glenn Danzig (left) and Arthur Googy at a Philadelphia area McDonald’s, August 1981. A somewhat ironic image, considering that nine months later an altercation between th...
Spook City, USA: the Misfits performing on Halloween night, 1979, at Irving Plaza in Manhattan. It was at this gig that the group officially released their fourth single, “Night Of The Living D...
Artwork from the 1997 CD release of Static Age, the “debut” Misfits album once thought to be lost or non-existent. Recorded in 1978, the group intended Static Age to be their first LP, presen...
The Misfits. Were using period. For emphasis. Before you were. This 1978 poster promotes the group’s second single and first tour (which was hampered slightly by guitarist Franché Coma’s sud...
Misfits fan Joey Ramone sporting a “Horror Business” shirt during his hilarious guest appearance on “The Drew Carey Show,” originally aired September 30, 1998. Watch the segment here .
Backstage with the Misfits: these evocative shots of Doyle (top left), Danzig (top right), and the pair with Jerry Only (bottom) were taken in 1982 by an unknown party. Surprising the band never ...
A Misfits Fiend Club mailing from Summer 1982 announcing not just the arrival of Robo but the pending releases of Earth A.D., the group’s second full length album, and Evilive, a concert EP, a...
Punk rock disaster: the Misfits pretend to be ill-fated passengers on Universal Studios California’s recreation of the Airport ‘77 set, November 1981. L-R: Jerry Only, Arthur Googy, Glenn ...
Misfits fans can be pretty intense, as the kid at the center of this image illustrates. Even his friends seem wary (Danzig is also avoiding direct eye contact). From an unidentified concert by an...
The Misfits on the opening date of their Walk Among Us tour, February 28, 1982, at Washington, D.C.’s 930 Club. Top: Glenn Danzig in requisite crouch, beltin’ out his tune. Middle: Arthur Goo...
On October 30, 2001, Caroline Records was set to release 12 Hits From Hell, a Misfits album culled from a Fall 1980 recording session that featured similar yet separate contributions from guitari...
Ancient monster design: Misfits guitarist Paul “Doyle” Caiafa in profile, 1994. Photo by Doug Custer.
Striking flyer for a 1978 New York City gig featuring the Victims, the only other band the Misfits allowed on their Plan 9 record label. 57 Club is of course long gone; today that address houses ...
Children in heat gather to see the Misfits at the Henry Ford Community Center, Dearborn, MI, January 7, 1983. Singer Glenn Danzig (right) surveys the teeming crowd, it seems, while guitarist Doyl...
Though it’s hard to imagine Jerry Only (left) and Glenn Danzig agreeing to even be in the same room today, for six years they worked together to establish one of punk rock’s greatest acts. He...
Misfits bass player Jerry Only at his most classic. Photo believed to be from a December 3, 1982 gig at the Piast in Jersey City, NJ, taken by Eerie Von.
Assorted buttons the Misfits gave away or sold via the Fiend Club in the late ‘70s. Clockwise from top left: Glenn Danzig’s original hand drawn logo; the Crimson Ghost in a rare display of h...