Marx Monsters

[graveghoul]

I believe some legal stuff.

[RedKing]

I love the Marx monsters almost as much as the Aurora kits. I picked up dark blue repros of the Hunchback and Mummy back in 1989 at Rare Plane Detectives hobby shop in New Jersey on vacation and have since gotten the complete glow set. These guys look amazing painted, the detail in these scuplts is simply astounding! I have to get good pics of the Phantom and the Hunchback, but here are the others in the set.

[Dr. Madd]

My glow set - (I have the glow ones) were all blister packed.

[shiverbones]

They all look great, but that mummy is the bees knees!

[Wicked Lester]

They are all cool , the Frank is great,Mummy awesome but the Chreech needs to be finished with a double/triple semi gloss coat to make it look wet. Wolfman needs nasty animal eyes not human looking. Just my opinion. I've painted them too over 20 years ago.

[bigbud]

Along with the great 6" Marx monsters, sculpted brilliantly, were the Cowboys, Indians, Romans, Vikings, knights, Marvel Super Heroes etc. My belief that these fantastic figures were sculpted by a single gifted artist.  I was always of the believe that all the Marx figures were only bin toys....with usually 19 cents marked on the bases of mine. After many years of collecting I ran into this unusual item that carded two of the Japanese 6" soldiers. What I am saying is that any weird and unusual marketing combination of the Marx figures is possible. If you are familiar with Marx playsets you know that parts and pieces of one playset could show up in several other sets. How cool it would be to find Marx monsters packaged with some other connected Marx item.  Bud

[Scary Terry]

Joe Ferriot is credited with sculpting some 90% of the Marx figures.  I've seen Bill Lemon credited as sculpting some, too.  My favorite of the Marx figures are the Weird-oh's -- so much better than the model kit versions!

[GAKENSTEIN]

Seriously...  is there a cooler piece of plastic than the Marx 6" Frankenstein??  Methinks not.  God, how I marvel at this iconic sculpt, the way it perfectly captures the awkward gait of Glenn Strange.

This Thanksgiving I am grateful to Bill Lemon, or whomever it was who created the Marx 6" Frankenstein, for the many hours I spent not only playing with it, but also just staring at its sheer perfection.

Now pass the stuffing.....

[Gasport]

I TOTALLY agree with you, GAK! With the Creature running a close second...pure vintage monster goodness.

[Dr. Madd]

Along with the great 6" Marx monsters, sculpted brilliantly, were the Cowboys, Indians, Romans, Vikings, knights, Marvel Super Heroes etc. My belief that these fantastic figures were sculpted by a single gifted artist.  I was always of the believe that all the Marx figures were only bin toys....with usually 19 cents marked on the bases of mine. After many years of collecting I ran into this unusual item that carded two of the Japanese 6" soldiers. What I am saying is that any weird and unusual marketing combination of the Marx figures is possible. If you are familiar with Marx playsets you know that parts and pieces of one playset could show up in several other sets. How cool it would be to find Marx monsters packaged with some other connected Marx item.  Bud

I had those soldiers.. I still have an original Marx German Grenadier!

[bigbud]

I don't know if I can think of any early-mid 60's Marx 6" figure that isn't exceptionally sculpted. To know positively who did the sculpting would be great information. Till I hear otherwise I'll believe it to be Mr. Lemon. I wonder if he did any of the smaller playset figures?     Bud

[Scatter]

I TOTALLY agree with you, GAK! With the Creature running a close second...pure vintage monster goodness.

I reverse that order,but only by the razor-thinnest of margins. Cool to the bone.

[RedKing]

When did Marx go out of business? I remember having as a little kid in the mid to late 70s the Marx Spidey, Captain America, Daredevil and Thor as well as several Disney cartoon characters. I wish I knew what happened to those Marvel figures, I would love to still have them!

[Monolith]

Not sure when Marx went out of business. I have a set of the monsters and a complete set of the vikings and the knights and the superheroes.
When I was a kid I went fishing with my dad in a row boat and I saw a dollar bill on the lake bottom, I stuck my fishing pole down and pulled it up. It was a twenty dollar bill. I dried it off and we went into town and the first thing I bought with my twenty was these, I still have 'em...

[michblk]

Great story Mono!

BK