Survival of the Misfitest

For Misfits fans (or music or logo OR 1940s cheesy horror fans) this may be well-known band lore but I’ll admit that today I learned — and hopefully it’s not as common knowledge as the arrow in the FedEx logo — that the iconic, crude skull logo for the punk rock band is a rendering of the already crude Crimson Ghost, the titular character of The Crimson Ghost, a 1946 American film serial reproduced in 12 chapters, which had a budget of approximately $160,000 — which shows.