MARX Enemies of ZORRO

Thanks to the infamous Cap'n Bob Napier for pics of his Comandante and Garcia!

MARX ZORRO and Friends

Toy Soldier Saturday: MARX GIs (Part 4)

Yeah, three sets of these have gone before, and we ain't done yet. Marx did some humungous battleground sets, and needed soldiers to fill them. 

Way more Toy Soldiers HERE. 

Toy Soldier Saturday: 60mm ROY ROGERS (and friends)

Yeah, it's the King of the Cowboys from the King of the Toy Soldier Companies. These guys were included with Roy Rogers Ranch and Roy Rogers Mineral City town sets. Marx later made some 45mm versions of the gang that are considerably less cool. 

This Nellybelle is made of metal and is not by Marx, but Pat Brady looks incomplete without it. (This pic is for you, Gobe.)

More Toy Soldiers HERE.

Toy Soldier Saturday: MARX 45mm Cowboys

Here are some of Louis Marx's smallest cowboys, averaging only about an inch and a half tall. Sadly, this set contained about a half dozen poses I do not possess. 

Many more Toy Soldiers HERE. 

Toy Soldier Saturday: MARX 54mm Indians (Part 2)

Part 1 of this tribal pictorial is HERE. 

More Toy Soldiers HERE.

Toy Soldier Saturday: MARX 54mm Indians (Part 1)

These hardy warriors spent decades attacking Marx Fort Apaches, and usually being rebuffed. In the early  years they were red (like most of these), brown or yellow. In later sets they were flesh-toned, like the guy second-to-bottom, and in they end they were done in florescent orange, which was not only butt-ugly, but damn hard to photograph. We'll meet the rest of the war party in Part 2. 

The Toy Soldier armies are HERE.

Toy Soldier Saturday: MARX Squatty-body GIs

I ain't certain sure what to call these guys. They're small (the tallest is two inches), some (particularly the standing rifleman and the grenade thrower, are skinny when sideways, most of them have the same face, and the guy in the last pic looks like he needs to use the latrine. 

I've seen them listed as Army Training Center GIs, and that could be right. I'm guessing they were made in the early '50s, before the far better sculpted and more familiar 54mm figures of the Alamo, the Civil War and the Zorro set.

The whole Toy Soldier Line-up (to date) is HERE.