In the 1950s, Louis Marx and Company began producing elaborate plastic playsets. In the 1950s, Louis Marx and Company began producing elaborate plastic playsets. Marx capitalized on the popularity of ...

MOUNDSVILLE -When visitors open the door to an unassuming building on a quiet street in Moundsville, they enter into an alternative universe, populated by an amazing array of toys from playtimes past ...

Marx Toys employed more than 2,000 workers at its factories, warehouses and other Erie and Girard facilities at their peak in the 1940s and '50s. From designing to assembling and packaging toys to ...

Q: I have a Roy Rogers Ranch Set, Marx No. 3979-3980. Everything is new. It has been opened but never bent into shape and assembled. Is this a common item or scarce piece? What is its value? J.L., ...

The last gift my wife had for me under our tree this past Christmas took me back in time. The big box she’d carefully wrapped held an original “Fort Apache” playset, not much worse for wear than when ...

We've talked a lot about the baby-boomer toys of the '50s and '60s. Now it's time to move on to the later adventure action figures, the so-called post-boomer toys that are currently rising in the ...

Through the swinging glass doors of Manhattan’s “21” Club one night last week popped a roly-poly, melon-bald little man with the berry-bright eyes and beneficent smile of St. Nick touching down on a ...

A lot of reissued Marx plastic toys aren't in Kansas anymore. They're being sold around the country through a partnership between Marx Toys & Entertainment Corp. and a Kansas-based toy dealer that ...

MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va. – He has never set foot in the Pentagon, but Francis Turner is America’s most powerful and experienced military commander. He led both the American and German armies at Normandy; ...

An attempt to revive a classic line of injection molded toys has been derailed by the arrests of six executives and investors for alleged stock fraud at Marx Toys & Entertainment Corp. Freehold, ...