[This newsletter was originally supposed to be mailed out April 14, 1997.
 It was delayed for about a month due to unforseen circumstances.  Copies of
 the  newsletter can be ordered for $1 plus a stamp per copy from:
 Bleeder's Diegest Back Issues; PO Box 137; Cairnbrook, PA 15924]
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OFFICIAL FIEND CLUB NEWSLETTER
 BLEEDER'S DIEGEST Vol. I No. I

  MISFITS RELEASE FIRST ALBUM IN 15 YEARS!
   ADVICE TO FANS: GET READY FOR AN ERA OF TERROR

    "And he opened the bottomless pit;
    and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as
    the smoke of the great furnace; and the
    sun and the air were darkened by reason
    of the smoke of the pit.
    
    "And there came out of the smoke
    locusts upon the Earth: and unto them
    was given power, and that power was...
    American Psyho!"
    
    Beginning in April MISFITS fans can
    rejoice in the thunderous assault
    abounding from their stereos as we all
    listen with fury to the new MISFITS
    cranking out their first full length album
    since 1983.
    
    The 19 song epidemic, complete with
    lyrics, bears the title American Psycho.
    The name alone should ease the
    contention over whether the 90's
    MISFITS will reflect all of the classic
    boney, grim 'Fits of the past decade. And
    song titles such as "Walk Among Us" and
    "Dig Up Her Bones" don't leave any
    room to speculate that perhaps the guys
    abandoned the image they conceived in
    the first place.
    
    Concert goers of the East Coast
    Comeback Tour have already been dosed
    with new songs such as the "The
    Hunger", "Blacklight", and the instant
    classic "The Haunting". These three hits
    from heck are included on American
    Psycho, the band's first release since
    signed to Geffen Records.
    
    Jerry explains that the album is
    consistent to listen to from beginning to
    end as well as the perfect transition from
    the 1983 MISFITS to the present. He
    describes the songs as the traditional 50's
    style arrangements inked over with The 
    MISFITS trademark "evil" persona and
    energy. Mr. Only's enthusiasm
    surrounding Anzerican Psycho
    transcends simply the music. When
    meeting with him to discuss this
    newsletter, his black-gloved hands
    fumbled the album layout into my lap,
    and staring up at me was none other
    than the Crimson Ghost, exquisitely
    rendered by Famous Monsters of
    Filmland cover artist, Basil Gogos. The
    painting was adorned with that
    mindnumbing MISFITS logo and a
    catch phrase that made me drool...
    FREE POSTER INSIDE!
    
    It became obvious that American
    Psycho, come its release, will hail as    
    the definitive MISFITS treasury
    among every fiend's collection.
    The album is visibly motivated by
    the band's enduring insight into
    making things big and eerie!
    
    And as if there is the need for
    added influence on my part,
    Ramone's producer, Daniel Rey,
    oversaw the production of
    American Psycho and the album
    was mixed by Andy Wallace of
    White Zombie fame.
    
    The release date is unofficial as
    of this writing. April 8th is
    anticipated as the tentative
    conjuring of American Psycho,
    however it may be delayed until
    April 22nd to accomodate the
    band's touring schedule.
    
    Regardless, fiends should strap
    on their stompin' boots and add a
    handful of grease to those
    devilocks for this spring. It's time
    to end the century with the
    reawakening of the ultimate
    ghoul's of rock's resurrection an`
    unearthing of... Armerican Psycho!

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  BIZARRE FAN CLUB ANNOUNCES RESURRECTION!
   CONGRESS PLANS TO RETALIATE

    It's a fiend's destiny to eat meat,
    to eat fesh. But these cannibalistic
    ghouls who have pledged their
    loyalty to The MISFITS by enrolling
    in the Fiend Club, an exclusive tribe
    of followers spanning two decades,
    are all chanting in uniscon: "What's
    with the Fiend Club anymore?!"
    
    At one time the Fiend Club was
    an empire among other fan clubs.
    MISFITS fans could partake in all
    sorts of fiendish fun by receiving
    tonS of cool MISFITS booty just by
    sending in their name. It was a
    mysterious and eccentric
    organization powereed by the lust
    for skulls and included the
    distribution of Fiend Club
    memoribilia and rare MISFITS
    releases.
    
    Even today, not a single MISFITS
    concert takes place without at least
    one attendent adorning a tattered, see
    through MISFITS shirt whose wearer
    will proudly exclaim that he got the
    shirt in 1978 directly from the Fiend
    Club.
    
    Kids today are excited to belong to
    this MISFITS mafia and are restless to
    begin a new generation of Fiend Club
    fans who will wear an official Fiend
    Club shirt until their bellies, too,
    protrude from under a once oversized
    T-shirt and will be attendilly some
    concert in 2010 wearing the T and
    boasting that they, too, were one of
    the few who purchased it directly
    from the Fiend Club back when.
    
    The MISFITS have keen taking
    giant strides in their return and most    
    of their time has been consumed by
    touring and recording a new album.
    However, 1997 brings about the dawn of
    a new era of Fiendom and I graciously
    present to you, the brand new Fiend
    Club!
    
    The Bleeder's Diegest will inform
    members only on a 4 month basis of
    news on tours, albums, merchandise,
    and anything else MlSFIT`related.
    
    The new Fiend Club will embody the
    essence of the original club with
    monstrous contests and MISFITS fun
    you can only be a part of if you're a
    registered fiend! The mascot for the
    newsletter is Helen Blazes and if she is
    approved by the members she will
    become the official Fiend Club mascot.
    
    The purpose of the Fiend Club is to
    keep the integrity of the MISFITS' vision
    (continued on pg 4)
    
   MISFITS ON THE SILUER SCREAM! 
    "THEY ATE THE WHOLE BUFFET...THEN MY TRAILER!"
    
    During last summer's
    Resurrection Tour postcards
    were widely distributed with
    information on tour dates, new
    merchandise, and a teaser
    addressing fans that their
    favorite band would be
    appearing in feature film. This
    peaked everyone's curiosity,
    including my own, so I delved
    into the situation dead first. I
    decided it would be best to go
    straight to the source, the
    movie's writer/director, Craig
    Singer, a fellow New Jersey-ite
    himself.
    
    My research was fruitful, in
    fact what I discovered about
    "The Animal Room" seemed to
    center around a premise that
    perfectly suited The MISFITS so
    I was shocked to learn that
    Singer never even heard of the
    band. It wasn't until Singer met with the guys in a
    New Jersey diner, encouraged by his cousin's
    admiration for the ghoulish quartet, that he decided to
    include The MISFITS in the plot.

    The synopsis of "The Animal Room" plots Neil
    Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser, M.D.) as a chronic
    drug abusing teen who is transplanted in a community
    dominated by lawless delinquents where violence is
    frequent, if not rampant. Craig Singer noted that The
    MISFITS appear as themselves in a recording studio.
    Their trademark thunder drowns out the sounds of a
    gang attack on the studio engineer, an odd double
    standard as the band themselves have already gone
    fisticuffs in real life with sound technicians while on
    the road.

    Singer praised working with The MISFITS and was
    quick to mention his interest in working on future
    projects with the band.

    As for the film itself, "The Animal Room" stars the
    aforementioned Harris, Matthew Lillard (Scream,
    Hackers), and Catherine Hicks (Turbulence, Child's
    Play). The director of photography was none other
    than "Natural Born Killer"'s Amy Vincent. Although
    "The Animal Room" has already been released in the
    foreign market, it will be shown domestically
    everywhere after its showing at 
    the L.A. Film Festival in April.

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   MODEL KITS BELIEVED TO BE POSSESSED!  
    RESIN CHARACTERS ARE MORE THAN UNCANNY RESEMBLENCES
    
    Most of us fiends have a seething
    desire to collect, shudy, pledge
    allegiance to, and even build that which
    we find to be eerily orgasmic to us. We
    wallpaper our rooms, lockers, and
    basements with posters bearing the
    images of monster movies and monster
    bands. A lot of us even have a dresser
    top, or for some, shelves full of
    miniature Freddy Kruegers, Pinheads,
    and Frankensteins.
    
    Since the second movement in The
    MISFITS epic began, Saber has been
    providing movie monster resin model
    kits to the fiends who ache to assemble
    and paint tiny sized ghouls of their own.
    To illustrate the connection here, I ask
    readers to imagine, in sepia tone, three
    young boys racing each other to a local
    drug store in suburban Lodi, New
    Jersey around 1968. These three
    brothers saved their 50 cents a week
    allowance until they could afford the
    latest Werewolf vs. Frankenstein or
    Herman Munster Hot Rod model kit.
    When a significantly sweet number
    arrived before they could tally up their
    pocket change, the boys would stash the
    kit behind a crusty version of a snap-tite
    airplane where if the kit would be
    dliscovered it would only lie in the wake
    of some pudgy straight A kid who
    would be horrified to attempt the
    construction of a plastic blood sucking
    Dracula.    
    
    The influence these shoddy,
    premolded creeps had on the boys
    became evident a decade or so later,
    when the oddest brother began Fainting
    himself as a monster and soon after,
    Doyle, the youngest, equally altered his
    demeanor to the meaner. But perhaps
    the read heritage is found in Ken, the
    middle Misfit, whose vision has been
    profound in The MISFITS saga, while
    he himself remained behind the scenes.
    
    Ken has heen creating his own army
    of resin monster kits for the best part of
    ten years. His first release was,
    coincidentally, the Crimson Ghost,
    where the biggest challenge was
    sculpting the "floating" eyeballs and
    teeth. Consequently his efforts were for
    our benefit as the Crimson Ghost is a
    great starter as far as painting is
    concerned.
    
    Frankenstein was Ken's follow up
    production and it was a decision that
    entailed hours of research; as the
    Frankenstein monster has been
    interpreted quite differently throughout
    the years. Thankfully it was Universal's
    original Karloff monster that Ken based
    his model on.
    
    Typically each kit begins from
    scratch. Consulting a complete library
    of FMOF magazines, locating 8x10
    glossies, and most importantly, playing
    and replaying the character's feature  
    film while sculpting. Just like the
    depiction of these monsters in
    MISFITS songs, Saber's three
    dimensional versions are incredibly
    faithful to Hollywood's celluloid
    frighteners.
    
    While we've come a long way from
    the days when we could speed into
    the local Five & Ten with a pocket full
    of change and come out with a flesh
    eating zombie, we here at the Fiend
    Club would like members to think of
    us as that local drugstore. Although
    these kits cost more to produce,
    consequently they sell for more than
    those plastic kits of years ago, fiends
    should take heart that Saber has
    enough monsters to satisfy everyone.
    You don't need to ask us to hide that
    last Crimson Ghost behind a World
    War II Bomber until you've got the
    dough.
    
    In each issue we'll feature the latest
    Saber model kit, a bio on the monster
    itself and highlights on it's model
    version. Next time we'll spotlight the
    Sun Demon and the Crimson Ghost
    mask.
    
    Fiends who purchase kits can
    submit photos of their assembled and
    painted model to win a Fiend Club
    Scare Package and be featured in the
    next issue and those of you who have
    a favorite monster you would like to
    see as a Saber kit should send their
    ideas to the Fiend Club.
    
   TBIBUTE AIBUM LONG OUERDUE
    UNFORTUNATE FAN DIED WAITING -SAY COPS

    C'mon, C'mon, C'mon to a violent
    world with me!! After a decade or so of
    deliberating, Caroline Records finally
    produced that MISIFTS Tribute album
    fans have been warned about and
    eagerly anticipating with all their fright.
    
    However VIOLENT WORLD is
    no tribute album comprised of
    yesterday's top bands doing flashy    
    glam rock mock ups of ripping MISFITS
    classics, nor is it a colorful arrangement
    of varied musical influences. Unlike the  
    KISS tribute album, you won't find Garth
    Brooks doing "Angelfuck" or the Violent
    Femmes sassifying "Demonomania".
    
    What you get is a solid paced album,
    completely listenable from start to finish.
    While a lot of you fiends may disagree
    and feel certain bands maliciously 
    butchered the original song, it's fair to
    point out that all of the bands on
    VIOLENT WORLD are devoted
    MISFITS fans who include their cover as
    part of their dive set.
    
    For more grimformation on    
    VIOLENT WORLD and to
    participate in a contest to win
    colored vinyl copies of the arlbum  
    contact www.caroline.com.
    
    "One more fuckin' time, you assholes,, .....you die!"

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   SEND US YOUR SKULLS!
    AT ONE TIME, THE MISFITS REQUIRED THAT ALL
    FIEND CLUB MEMBERS SUBMIT A SKULL AS SORT
    OF AN UNOFFICIAL INITIATION.

    TODAY, TO CELBRATE THE REBIRTH OF THE
    FIEND CLUB, WE ASK AGAIN TAHT FIENDS
    CONTRIBUTE A CREEPY CRANIUM.  aLTHOUGH
    THE REWARD THIS TIME IS A SCARECROW
    MSIFITS SKATEBOARD FOR THE MOST GORIGINAL
    ENTRY!

    THE REQUIREMENTS ARE UNLIMITED, HOWEVER
    MURDER RESULTS IN DISQUALIFICATION.  WE
    WANT THE OCOLEST PAINTED PLASTIC SKULLS,
    OR REAL ONES PROVIDED THAT THE USER IS DONE
    WITH IT, HAND MADE SKULL JEWELRY,
    PHOTOGRAPHY, ETC.  ANYTHING SKULL RELATED!
    THE DEADLINE IS MAY 31, 1997 AND THE WINNER
    WILL BE DISPLAYED IN THE NEXT NEWSLETTER.


    Indulge in ever more MISFIT madness in the much
    acclaimed magazine...SQUIRT!

    Tag along on last summer's Resurrection Tour and read
    about exclusive reports, fights, deaths, and eerie
    phenomenon that actually happened on tour! And witness
    never before seen photos, too hot for other magazines!

    SQUIRT also regularly features sexy ghouls, odd
    personalities, and other great bands such as Bad Religion.

    SQUIRT #1 - Total MISFITS, a classic! $2, 3 stamps
    SQUIRT #2 - Elvira, Bad Religion, Tour Report Pt 1!
                $4, 4 stamps
    SQUIRT #3 - sNAP-HER, Red Rob, Tour Report Pt 2!
                $4, 4 stamps
    Send to:    SQUIRT
                P.O. Box 137
                Cairnbrook, PA 15924

    Allow 2-3 weeks for delivery.
    SQUIRT.  Anything else is just toilet paper.


    (continued from pg 2)
    intact by those who are true fans. We may sell things from
    time to time, but only to afford contests, newsletters, and
    other Fiend Club mailings and merchandise. The Fiend
    Club does NOT intend to profit from its members!
    Welcome, fiends, to a new age of Fiend Club mayhem.
    Finally you can enjoy the rights and frights of this
    legendary mob. It's your club, fiends, tell us what you
    want!


    And also check out Misfits Central at:
    http://watt.seas.virginia.edu/~msk4m/home.html      


    (continued from pg 3)

    The following are the
    current model kits by
    SABER:
    
    Jerry Only $150
    Frankenskin $130
    Crienson Ghost $130
    Evil Eye $75
    Earth A.D. $75
    Halloween II $60

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LIMITED EDITION FIEND CLUB MISFITS PIN-UPS!

    Make room in your vault of MISFITS collectibles for
    these recently exhumed show poster pin-ups! Each one is
    an ll"x 17", full color monsterpiece, numbered and
    limited to an undetermined amount.

    Out first exhibit advertises a classic
    show that paired the MISFITS with the hugely
    popular band Anthrax.  But this show just wasn't
    complete without another gutsy group on the ticket,
    and so Cannibal Corpse appears on this skullfully
    painted show poster as well.  Originally 250 prints
    were produced and sold out within days!  These
    three bands will never be seen on the same stage
    again and no other show poster was produced this
    professionally for the entire tour!  Now its back
    for one final act of terror before being buried for
    the last time in the MISFITS crypt!

    We proceed now to our second sinstallment in
    this terrible trio; an Ocotber show pin-up that
    perhaps depcits what happened shortly after
    Pushead's MISFITS skull plucked out its own eyeball.
    You'll just as likely gasp as this fellow does when
    you treat your own eyeballs to gawking at this
    comic book cover meets Misfits concert poster
    hanginong on your dungeon wall.  Only 80 were
    released last Halloween and now only a few hundred
    more are available to quench your thirst!

    Ghastly we present for your approval a never
    before seen poster for a show that never took
    place!  This parody of a pop culture phenomenon,
    the Mars Attacks cards, was produced exclusively
    for this pin-up set and will destory itself as
    soon as the sets are sold!  You must invest in this
    collection for this extremely rare pin-up alone!!

    SET OF 3 11" x 17",
    Full Color Pin-ups:
    $15, plus $3 postage

    Send orders to: Misfits Fearful Flyers
                    SQUIRT Magazine
                    P.O. Box 137
                    Cairnbrook, PA 15294

    Do not hesitate one minute longer!!  There are
    7-10,000 other fiends reading this flyer right now
    and placing their orders today!  To keep it a
    collectable, we've limited the sets to only those
    who respond by May 13, 1997!!  thes pin-ups will
    never be reprinted!  Don't be the fiend with the naked
    walls, order today!

    Each set is shipped flat with a cardboard spine and numbered
    according to the amount of orders received.  Check or money
    orders only out to SQUIRT Magazine.  All set shipped second week
    of May.

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