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Monsters Bought and Sold => Monsters Wanted! => Topic started by: Monsters For Sale on December 16, 2019, 02:37:21 PM

Title: Marx Frankenstein - YELLOW
Post by: Monsters For Sale on December 16, 2019, 02:37:21 PM

I want to find a YELLOW Mark Frankenstein.  I've only ever seen one in person, but it was in a complete set of the 5" figures.  The set was in a secondhand store and the owner seemed to think they should be listed as priceless antiques.

That was many years ago and I was beginning to think I had misremembered the actual color until I saw this:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49229633282_f5ee61cf72_b.jpg)
                                                             Phantom - Marx - YELLOW

If there is Yellow Marx Phantom out there, it's likely that a Yellow Marx Frankenstein is knocking around, too.


Anybody here able to help me?

Title: Re: Marx Frankenstein - YELLOW
Post by: Monster Mike on December 17, 2019, 09:43:01 PM
In the Mold-A-Rama collecting universe, the collectors, or as they call themselves "Moldies" refer to this as the "yellow-bellied" Frankenstein.
Title: Re: Marx Frankenstein - YELLOW
Post by: Monster Mike on December 17, 2019, 09:52:30 PM
On a completely different note: Was that picture of the group of Phantoms taken at the Marx Nazi convention on planet Bizarro?

I say on the planet Bizarro for 2 specific reasons-can you guess why?

Fun Fact: Attendees were known as "Marxis!"

I know-I have too much time on my hands-stuck on couch after knee operation.
Title: Re: Marx Frankenstein - YELLOW
Post by: Mike Scott on December 17, 2019, 09:57:05 PM
Quote from: Monster Mike on December 17, 2019, 09:52:30 PM

I say on the planet Bizarro for 2 specific reasons-can you guess why?


Left hand instead of right?
Title: Re: Marx Frankenstein - YELLOW
Post by: Monster Mike on December 17, 2019, 10:13:20 PM
Yes that's one of the opposites.
Title: Re: Marx Frankenstein - YELLOW
Post by: Haunted hearse on December 19, 2019, 09:55:51 AM
Quote from: Monsters For Sale on December 16, 2019, 02:37:21 PM
I want to find a YELLOW Mark Frankenstein.  I've only ever seen one in person, but it was in a complete set of the 5" figures.  The set was in a secondhand store and the owner seemed to think they should be listed as priceless antiques.

That was many years ago and I was beginning to think I had misremembered the actual color until I saw this:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49229633282_f5ee61cf72_b.jpg)
                                                             Phantom - Marx - YELLOW

If there is Yellow Marx Phantom out there, it's likely that a Yellow Marx Frankenstein is knocking around, too.


Anybody here able to help me?
Regarding that photo, did Marx really make that many colors? I know that the Uncle Milltie set I have could be painted. I prefer leaving mine unpainted, because I like them as glow in the dark.
Title: Re: Marx Frankenstein - YELLOW
Post by: Monsters For Sale on December 19, 2019, 12:11:08 PM
Marx made the original Orange and Blue (and maybe  slight variations of those.)

One set was made in light tan and packed in a box with paints and brushes.,  Than Uncle Milltie made the whie, glow-in-the-dark figures that were packaged on individual cards.

As far as I know, all the others were made in Mexico (with and without names and dates on their bottoms) after the original molds were sold off.  So they are unofficial but genuine.  Some of the Mexican ones were made with ill-fitting molds and have a lot of flash that escape through the cracks.

Besides the original 6" figures, their was a crude 5½" Mexican Frank made in black and almost always has a painted white shirt.  His base is much smaller.
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I suppose I could have just answered "no", but no one would have believed it was me.

Title: Re: Marx Frankenstein - YELLOW
Post by: Haunted hearse on December 19, 2019, 06:24:53 PM
Thanks, the repops can be any color, and I didn't know which of these colors would have come from Marx.
Title: Re: Marx Frankenstein - YELLOW
Post by: Mike Scott on December 19, 2019, 09:57:47 PM
Quote from: Haunted hearse on December 19, 2019, 06:24:53 PM
Thanks, the repops can be any color, and I didn't know which of these colors would have come from Marx.

These are the '63 Marx colors. If it isn't one of these, it's a repop.

(http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/MGalleryItem.php?id=1871)

(http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/MGalleryItem.php?id=393)