Marx Monsters

[Hepcat]

However, I don't know if collectors of the originals are aware that all six original figures, in sets of three orange and three blue, were sold in plastic ILLUSTRATED BAGS...!  I have only seen an original illustrated bag once, but I am certain it exists (though I could be wrong about the color combinations - they might have been sold six blue in a bag and six orange in a bag).

The Marx Weird-Ohs and perhaps the Nutty Mads as well were also sold in their own separate cellophane bags with printed graphics. Does anyone have any of the Nutty Mads or Marx Universal Monsters still in this kind of original packaging?

[CreationWiz]

Boy in this pic Frankenstein really looks like Lon Chaney Jr. in Ghost of Frankenstein.

[jimm]

Proper paint sure brings out the sculpts, would love to see other Marx lines wtih a nice paint job!

[CreationWiz]

[Mike Scott]

[jeffs60s]

I loved these plastic Universal monsters. I used to buy mine out of a bin as well. Newberry's toy basement actually, circa 1963. I also bought the large army men as well. Plastic figures were great.

[marsattacks666]

I loved these plastic Universal monsters. I used to buy mine out of a bin as well. Newberry's toy basement actually, circa 1963. I also bought the large army men as well. Plastic figures were great.

That's a big ten-4

[Hepcat]

I loved these plastic Universal monsters. I used to buy mine out of a bin as well. Newberry's toy basement actually, circa 1963.

Where was this? Was Newberry's a chain? Was it like Kresge and Woolworth?

[Haunted hearse]

Where was this? Was Newberry's a chain? Was it like Kresge and Woolworth?

The one I used to go to as a kid in LA was something like a Woolworth.

[jeffs60s]

I'm not sure if Newberry's was a chain or not. There were two of them in Portland, Oregon. For official lookup reference, they were: J.J. Newberry Co.

[Haunted hearse]

I'm not sure if Newberry's was a chain or not. There were two of them in Portland, Oregon. For official lookup reference, they were: J.J. Newberry Co.

It was indeed a chain, and the last store closed in 1977.  More info here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.J._Newberry

[BANE]

I bought my Uncle Milton's in that comic shop loose for $3 each over 20 something years ago. I was never much of a mummy figure fan until I got one in the vile green a few months back.

I had this awhile back but traded it to Bane and some other stuff for the Pop Top repops. This may or may not have some info needed to this thread but it is a cool mag nonetheless.

Never saw the magazine.  Perhaps Jim Bertges held onto it?

[Haunted hearse]

I wouldn't mind having a set, even the Mexican pops.  How much does one of the later sets run?

[horror1o1]

I wouldn't mind having a set, even the Mexican pops.  How much does one of the later sets run?

i have thought about getting the repops myself but i keep hearing the detail isn't very good on them.

[jimm]

Get repops if they are cheap, paint them when you find originals.