Wonderful toy robots, space ships, astronauts, and comic characters produced by the Louis Marx Company from the 1950s to the 1970s are described and shown in color and black and white photographs in Marx Toys: Robots, Space, Comic, Disney & TV Characters. Prices are included among the descriptions. The focus of this book features a super popular collecting area in general of robots and space toys and those of the Walt Disney Company and other TV characters of the mid 20th century. While founded in 1919, Marx production was interrupted by the World Wars, but after World War II they returned to toy manufacturing and achieved a dominant position in the U. S. market during the 1950s and 1960s. Friction-based trains, fire engines, and cars were introduced in 1948, and the Marx plant in Girard, PA first produced the famous Marx trains while automobiles and other vehicles were first produced at a new factory in Glendale, West Virginia. In 1955, electric trains and automobiles were introduced, and later that year Louis Marx appeared on the December, 1955 cover of Time Magazine with the moniker "The Toy King!" As an early adopter of overseas manufacturing, Marx had established factories in 10 countries by 1964 and licensed others for export. The toys covered in thsi book were produced in tin or plastic and include wind-ups, battery powered toys, hoppers, and ramp walkers which light up, make noises, or scramble erratically around the room. Interviews with artists employed by the company add detail to this valuable text, an essential reference for anyone fascinated by toys. Author Maxine A. Pinksy from Philadelphia, PA has studied, collected and written other books on Marx toys and has a winner here in a red hot collecting area.

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