Marx Monsters

[freddie poe]

So, the monster Gods obviously doesn't want me posting pics on my own.  Tried everything!!  Does anyone want to volunteer to post a pic of some Marx figs??  Send me an email off my profile and I will send to you.  Thanks!!!

[freddie poe]

one more try.

[Monster Bob]

Yup. The two on the left are correct. Tell us about the blue Wolf Man.

[freddie poe]

had it all my life............. im 58...... dated 1963

[freddie poe]

i have never bought a marx monster as an adult. those are all from my original purchases as a child.........i have a picture of me holding the mummy figure in 1963...

[Monster Bob]

Do you remember how/where it was bought?

[freddie poe]

from a wire bin....thinking of the stores that were around back then... i might say from a Bradlee's or a Zayre's dept store......i don't do repro's on any monster toys. i do not buy now or have never bought  meximarx stuff. its junk....this wolfman is an original issue figure. i just dug it out of the display case and put it back in. if anyone wants to see the bottom i will dig it out again. but it is going to say louis marx/universal and 1963 in roman numerals...

[freddie poe]

here is the bottom of the wolfman marx fig --

[Hepcat]

In another thread, I brought up the fact that Fritos had hand-painted MPC Monster figures in their Fritos multi packs (I have a complete set- they are extremely nicely done and VERY hard to find).... I know the ones I had from Fritos were the hand-painted ones. I got them from Rock's Grocery and Meats, in Illinois, circa mid-1960s.

Were all the ones you pulled from Fritos multi packs hand-painted or just some of them?

[Hepcat]

Oh, that was definately the way they were sold 90% of the time- the common orange and blue, and in dump bins at the "five and dimes". Your memory is most certainly correct.

Sadly I have no memory whatsoever of these being sold at the five-and-dimes in London, Ontario. Perhaps because I was more oriented to model kits; I just don't know. Maybe they just weren't sold in my neck of the woods because I just didn't know of their existence until more recently.

It's these damn Mexican knock-offs that have caused the problems. 

I agree.



It's the revenge of the Mexicans for the U.S. having grabbed Texas and California from them I tell ya!

[Monster Bob]

Were all the ones you pulled from Fritos multi packs hand-painted or just some of them?

The ones I had were hand painted. I seem to remember Gary Knox saying his weren't. but don't quote me.

[Allhallowsday]

The ones I had were hand painted. I seem to remember Gary Knox saying his weren't. but don't quote me.

You guys know GARY KNOX?  Is he a member of this forum?  We met a few times at toy shows in the '80s and '90s; I think my Marx Walking Frankenstein was the first one he'd seen in person.  We talked on the phone a lot and swapped a few times; I used to talk with him when he was at Forney's Too.  We wrote letters and swapped artwork... eventually lost touch.  PM me if anyone cares to. 

[Monster Bob]

Gary lives here from time to time. I believe his handle is GAKENSTEIN.

[Allhallowsday]

Gary lives here from time to time. I believe his handle is GAKENSTEIN.

GAK!  I think that is his signature on his artwork. 

[Gasport]

one more try.

Hey Freddie!...I'm totally digging that darker blue Wolf Man! Like yourself, i remember buying these guys at Grants back in the day out of wire bins and the only colors i ever saw were turquoise and neon orange. I did find one of the milky orange Phantoms on ebay sometime ago with a 19 cent original price sticker on it...Hep re posted my pic in this thread.  Thanks for sharing this!