Marx Plastic Figures Two, we will look at some of the skyscraper figures. Next, we check out the famous or infamous sawbuck. We have the two versions of President Lyndon Johnson.
Marx Plastic Figures Two Skyscraper Figures
Marx Sawbuck
President Lyndon Johnson
Are the Marx skyscraper figure molds in Mexico? It seems like I saw some kind of re-issues at one time – like the pharmacist figure in various colors?
I like the second LBJ figure. It is a much better characterization, broad shouldered and tall like he was. The first figure looks wimpy by comparison.
In the late 1960s, my mother purchased many of the Marx Presidential figures from the local Weingarten’s grocery store in Texas City, Texas for my bother and I. My LBJ figure was the puny version and it looked physically small and pathetic compared to the rest of the presidential figures. At the time, I showed it to my father and he figured the reason the toy manufacturer made LBJ look so bad was because so many people hated LBJ due to the Vietnam War. I didn’t even know the larger, more robust version of LBJ existed until I recently (2019) started collecting the Marx figures from eBay.