Marx Monsters

[Plastic Nebula]

This is a wonderful article about Marx Monsters that i would encourage everyone to check out:
http://www.60smemories.com/plastic-figures-from-the-1960s.html

I think this is the guy that Hepcat was referring to that had the green Hunchback when he was a kid in the 60's.
I've been having a conversation with him about it, and he told me it was a flat/cool green like the image in his
article. This was his absolute prized possession, so he is certain about what it looked like. He also remembers the
figures in other colors, including popsicle blue, dark blue, and flat royal blue as well as teal and orange.

I also found a post on the Classic Horror Film Board where a guy called "Federal Operator 99" talks about buying
these figure at Woolworth's for .19 when he was a kid and states that he had a dark blue Wolfman, as well as
Frankenstein in orange and Creech and Mummy in a different shade of orange (i assume "pumpkin").

This seems to be pretty strong evidence that these figures were produced in more colors than just teal and orange
in the early 60's. These guys have no reason to lie about it and i see no reason to doubt their stories.

[Hepcat]

Huh? How are the bases different Hepcat?

Well the base to our right has one completely empty circle. The other Marx figure has a bunch of writing within that circle.

[Dr.Terror]

Well the base to our right has one completely empty circle. The other Marx figure has a bunch of writing within that circle.

Hunchbacks have blank circles where the Uni copywright would be because he was not licensed.

[Dr.Terror]

Not mine.   Never seen other colors bagged.

[Hepcat]

Wow! Cool! Looks like some jobber repackaged unsold warehouse stock of the Marx Universal figures in the 1970's.



Do you have a date?

[RPM]

On the header card there appears to be a two digit number  following the city which indicates pre-ZIP Postal Codes. Since ZIP codes were enacted in 1963 which is the same year as the figures are stamped, I would date it as 1963 and probably distributed into the following year or so until the stock was used up.

[Plastic Nebula]

Those bagged figures are so cool!!!
I stumbled upon this pic that a dude posted on Pinterest. There was no info about it though.

Marx Cinema Creatures Bagged by John Baxter, on Flickr

[Hepcat]

Interesting that the figures shown on the bag are either blue or orange. That would indicate that at the time the bagged figures were issued Marx was (intentionally) making the figures available in the States in precisely those two colours.

[Dr.Terror]

There is an example with both orange and teal out there I believe.     
Toys sold in Mexico had to be produced in Mexico back then.    Once they got molds in Mexico they started popping out other colors.

[RPM]

These figures are out of the bag. These bagged sets were advertised in the 1964 Marx catalog.

[marsattacks666]

These figures are out of the bag. These bagged sets were advertised in the 1964 Marx catalog.

Wow! Now that is thing if beauty.

[Mike Scott]

[Plastic Nebula]

Hmmmm, I would assume there must have been bags of all Orange figures. I wonder if there were mixed bags as well?
We need a warehouse find of these to show up, i would pay a ridiculous amount of money for a set. 

[Mike Scott]

I wonder if there were mixed bags as well?

The ones in the pic that RPM showed appears to have been a mix bag.

We need a warehouse find of these to show up.

I won't hold my breath.

[RPM]

Check out the third post down in this link by Zombiehorror from 2011 regarding the 1964 Marx catalog details about these bagged sets. I can't copy the photo of the ad since it has a Photobucket watermark.

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=15098.msg241479#msg241479