TOP MARX: CHRIS'S 6-INCH FIGURES

Hi Woodsy

I thought you might be interested in this for Moonbase Central, images attached.

 This is a collection of Marx 6-inch figures from 1964, which I just picked up in a charity shop for £6, which I thought was a bargain. 

As you know, the Marx figures came unpainted, but these have been painted very well, and considering that they are 60 years old, the paint has lasted very well.

 There are 8 American, 4 German and 4 Red Indian figures - I assume there are more in the sets, I will have to look out for them. 

Hope you find this interesting, and good luck with the website, which is a source of endless interest.

Regards,

Chris Jenkins

MARX SPACEMAN CAPTIONS NEEDED! C'MON READERS!

These two snaps on the Bay made me chuckle!

They so need a good caption!

Do your worst!

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The little fella is actually this lovely Marx Apollo Astronaut from 1970.

I definately had one of these sets, a Major Mat me-too if ever there was one!

Did you have one?

DAREDEVIL AND ELEKTRA: CANE AND SAI

I've been enjoying re-watching two old movie friends this weekend. When I say friends I mean films I saw decades ago and always liked them, namely Daredevil and Elektra. Have you seen them?

When you'd taken all you could from the X-Men and X2, with the dawn of Marvel's cinematic universe at the turn of the Millennium, Daredevil and Elektra were waiting for you to keep your leather-clad inner-hero alive and kicking.

OK, neither of them are Avengers or maybe not even A-listers but this linked pair of films really grabbed my attention way back when. 

Ben Affleck's understated and tormented Daredevil, patrolling Hell's Kitchen and being a general pain in the kneecaps for Kingpin, was just what I needed after the wild fury of Wolverine's steel claws. His playground skirmish with Elektra was, well ..... electric and the perfect cue for her own film two years later.

Elektra and me hit it off from the get go. It was her two fabulous sai, an Okinawan weapon I was fascinated by as a martial arts nut in the early Seventies. Her red garb completed the look of the ultra-lethal karate-kicking Stick-trained assassin with a heart.

Daredevil has remained a constant in the murky background of the MCU defending the Kitchen with his pals Iron Fist et al, but Elektra seems to have sadly hung up her sai unless I've missed her come-back. I for one would welcome her's and Stick's return.

Oddly I never found a single vintage Daredevil toy in all my years of car booting. OK, there's been a slew of modern figures but when I was collecting any Secret Wars 1984 figures at boot sales years ago old Fearless, below, never showed his masked face.

The first Daredevil action figure - or plastic figure - was part of the wonderful and ground-breaking range of Marx super hero mini-statues in 1966, a figure I've only ever seen in the flesh on the Olympian shelves of super dealers at Birmingham's Memorabilia.

Have you any Daredevil or Elektra collectables?

MY MARX WILD WEST FIGURES

 Following on from my previous Marx Man from UNCLE figures  post, and at the request of reader, Tony K, here's some photos  of the Marx 6" Wild West Cowboys kindly sent to me as a freebie when I bought the UNCLE figures.  

I have five, of what I think should be a set of at least six  as each of mine are numbered on the base, but I'm  missing number four, which I believe is a wounded cowboy clutching his chest. Number 3 has part of his lasso missing.

There are also a further six American Indians to collect.

I did a little further research and found that the original Marx Wild West figures were dated 1964 on the base.

Like my UNCLE figures they are painted and lacquered to a good standard, and along with a number, they carry the name on the base  'Plastimarx Mexico'. 

Plastimarx was originally a Mexican company called Artefactors Plasticos that was acquired by Marx at some point in the fifties and renamed, soon becoming one of Marx' most profitable branches. 

 I also found that in 1963, another Marx company in Hong Kong, Gold Marx produced several fully painted 6" figures, using enamel and gloss lacquer not unlike my UNCLE figures, and these Cowboy figures. However, the painted ones are supposed to be identified by having a 'Marx - Made in Hong Kong' or 'Marx - Made in Taiwan' stamped on the base, so when it comes to my figures, it's still very much inconclusive.

Adios, Pardners!