Plastic Figure Showcase Part Four January 2018 Marx Plus Much More we will look at a number of items. First the booklet that came with Comanchee Pass. Next Detlef Heerbrand lets us show you the various figures of the Dom Oriental series. He had previownthese on Facebook. Final I have an Ebay question.
Plastic Figure Showcase Part Four January 2018 Marx Plus Much More Booklet
One of the hardest item to find of the Marx Comanchee Pass Playset. The story and art was done by Don Perlin. Don was an artist and writier on various Marvel Comics. Many of the artists and writiers did outside work.
The story shows a dispute between cavalry and Indians. The battle ends as a misunderstanding and no one dies.
The back cover shows the Navarone and Prehistoric Mountain playsets
Plastic Figure Showcase Part Four January 2018 Marx Plus Much More Dom Oriental Series
Detlef Heerbrand has given us permission to share with you the various character figures of the Dom Oriental series The first one is Lord David Linsay. He is a member of the Traveler’s club.
The next figure is Scheik Mohammed Emin. The figure is 60mm and could be used in a Foreign Legin scenario.
Machredsch von Mossul is the third figure. He is the head of the Turkish Court of Mosul
Hadschi Halef Omar is friend and companion to the hero a German adventurer
Abu Seif is leader of a pirate gang
The final figure is a harem dancer. This is the hardest figure to find
Plastic Figure Showcase Part Four January 2018 Marx Plus Much More Ebay Question
This question is more to people on Ebay who sell. are you seeing more of your items not selling but having many views? The reason I am asking this I have noticed a spike in my listings with many views but no sales. I am trying to figure is only me or are other sellers having the problem. Let me know.
Yes, I have seen that trend. Some items go for months before they sell.
No only you.Is every one.
I slso sale amd it is happening .
Plus I save sellers listing to follow and they are x months.Not selling.Best
Hello,
Who on EBAY is selling the Dom Oriental figures?
Thanks
Benjamin
Stads often sale then in past ,i don’t know now .But you can try by searching germany ,Italy of other countries ebay listing under the brand of makers often described generic under DOM-PLASTIC,MANURBA ,LINDE HEIRLENE brands.
As far i know are not cheap unless in job lots listing.
Best
Thanks Erwin.
I want to use one of the figures with Britains War on the Nile.
Best wishes,
Benjamin
Several of these guys appear to be standing at the bus stop waiting for the bus. Where are the action poses?
They are characters.Most charters are always made as that .Of the same there were no action poses.
Best
First, attendance at the shows drops off.
Second, mail-order and ebay purchases also begin to decline.
And then inevitably, as night follows day, prices begin dropping as well.
Think: beanie babies, wall-plates, postage stamps, baseball cards, etc.
But as Dan McClean (Toy Meister) memorably pointed out at last year’s Indy Show, when it comes to Marx: prices for the common figures (Fort Apache, Blue & Gray, Alamo) have “generally” declined, but for the rarer, more-limited, less readily available figures, prices have still “generally” (for now, so far) held up.
I don’t know the harem girl looks like she’s doing the Spoc wave.
I noticed that unique finger positioning too. Not the most enticing of desert maidens…
I remember that Comanche Pass comic booklet. I never had the set, despite wanting it very much, but somehow I wound up with a booklet. I think one of my friends gave it to me one year as a consolation prize because I didn’t get a set of my own. I sold it a few years ago. I don’t think ANY kid ever followed the “peaceful solution” example of gameplay given in the booklet! That comic must have been the result of some 70s hippie philosophy that leaked into Marx’s design department. I wonder if the Navarone playset also had a comic booklet where the GIs and Germans reached a mutually acceptable compromise and laid down their arms?
In regards to the Commanche Pass playset I too missed out on it. As a 10-year old the Navarone set showed up for Christmas. But by 12 Santa felt I was too old for US cavalry and Indians.
The comic book does have a mid-to-late 70s theme of no actual toy violence. I just watched a show on Netflix on the toys we grew up with and one episode featured the smaller GI Joes of the early 80s. They fought their evil opponents, dispensing large amounts of munitions, and destroying many military vehicles, but nobody was ever killed, and they all lived to fight another day. Apparently, that theme helped keep moms happy and willing to buy more GI Joes.
That’s like The A-Team from the early 80s, too. Every episode they fired off almost as much ammunition as was expended in the entire Vietnam War but nobody got a scratch and even the bad guys would just get up and dust themselves off before being taken into custody.
In regards to the Commanche Pass playset I too missed out on it. As a 10-year old the Navarone set showed up for Christmas. But by 12 Santa felt I was too old for US cavalry and Indians.
The comic book does have a mid-to-late 70s theme of no actual toy violence. I just watched a show on Netflix on the toys we grew up with and one episode featured the smaller GI Joes of the early 80s. They fought their evil opponents, dispensing large amounts of munitions, and destroying many military vehicles, but nobody was ever killed, and they all lived to fight another day. Apparently, that theme helped keep moms happy and willing to buy more GI Joes.
I remember seeing “Commanche Pass” (was it at “Monkey” Wards?); but that was during my first marriage and funds were tight at the time. Besides, the lime green pioneers were kind of a turn off (perhaps that was sour grapes on my part…).
But I think that was a sad attempt (along with the “Kumbayah” storybook) to attract kids who were a bit jaundiced (don’t know if that’s the right word) by colorful GI Joe’s. Kind of like the Mexican repros of Marx figures later on. Sad. Personally, I was turned off by the day-glow colors.
“The A-Team” was really popular at work when I was in the 82nd. I think it came on Tuesday nights. I remember every Wednesday morning coming in and us all laughing about the crap they’d pull. All those bullets flying and no one got hurt. I chalked it up like a live-action cartoon like “Looney Tunes” and “Tom and Jerry.” Wiley Coyote or Yosemite Sam blowing themselves up, dusting themselves off and going back at it.
Fun show, still kind of holds up for laughs – even after all these years.
Wayne, I remember that “colorful” trend caused me to skip getting a Best of the West Geronimo. I got Chief Cherokee one year with a nice caramel brown buckskin outfit. I was looking forward to getting Geronimo in his greyish buckskins, but by the time my Mom finally got around to getting one for me, they had changed the plastic to this hideous radioactive-looking neon green! I took one look and begged Mom to exchange him for a General Custer who was still in cavalry blue. Apparently they also did Geronimo in glowing orange as well.
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Some weird things went on with children’s toys and TV shows back in the late 60s and early 70s. I read that both the Spiderman cartoon and the live action show H.R. Pufnstuf (puffing stuff?) were developed by people under the influence of psychedelic drugs.
From what I recall of a lot of Saturday morning cartoons from the era, I would say most of the writers and artists were getting stoned. The colors of some of the action figures and toy soldiers certainly were something out of a “bad trip”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if drugs had something to do with it – some of those cartoons looked like they were from a Timothy Leary experiment.
I don’t know maybe I’m in the right place at the right time, but while I notidced a decline in shows a couple years ago, I have experiecned an increase in attendance at shows lately, at least the minor shows, OTSN seemed to have declined somewhat, but all the others I go to have increased almost back to pre decline numbers.The biggest decline I have seen is in the room trading attendance at OTSN, the show itself seemed to be well attended.
I got a Comanche Pass. It may have been my last playset as a kid. The Cavalry was all on foot. No mounted figures! Then, the royal blue color was too bright and the lime green was just a bad choice. Yes, it definitely was an attempt to go with the drug-induced peacenic flow. Even the mountain was an ‘eyesore orange’. I got a dino mountain for super cheap a few years ago and repainted it in colors that occur in nature. It can be configured like Comanche Pass. There are two ways the front mountain fits on the base. I’d ended up with the 2 other pieces (rock and lower rock bridge) in an Ebay lot long ago, so I have my choice in set ups now.