Marx, Hasbro Action Figures from the 1960s

[@kenballard3724]

I had chief Cherokee, my brother had Johnny West, and my sister had Jane

[@Ecto_Eric]

Thank you 🙏 for the memories I was born in 1972 my brother who was 9 years older than myself had some of these really great to see these amazing figures again

[@Strick58]

That is awesome I had Johnny west and sam cobra and fighting eagle..just bought my brother a Geronimo for his up coming 61st Birthday...thank you for the memories

[@markallandryden2965]

Bet he loves it!

[@davenorgrove3193]

I had Johnny, General Custer, and Geronimo. The neighbor kids had many of the other figures and we would all play with them outside. I'm sure there are still plastic accessories buried in those yards! Thanks for the walk down memory lane!

[@markallandryden2965]

Thanks for watching.

[@davidrussell6159]

I had the entire best of the west collection ! They were awesome.

[@joshuabekel9700]

The Johnny West line has always impressed the hell out of me.

[@reddragonn1590]

Wow. My brother and I had 1st editions. Cherokee me, Johnny he. Think I still have them in a storage box. Had the knights too. Thanks for sharing. Great memories.

[@markallandryden2965]

Cool! I hope they survived all the years in storage. Cheers

[@reddragonn1590]

@@markallandryden2965 😅 they were played with hard, but at least still have arms and legs as far as I remember.

[@fatmancomics]

Wow. Those are great, detailed sculpts.

[@user-xt5uw6oy7r]

me n my best bud used to have alot of these,...for some reason i always thought that the gold knight looked like dr quest,....thanks for the video,....

[@markallandryden2965]

Me too, and I thought the blonde painted head GI Joe looked a little like Race Bannon.

[@francoisregis2155]

Very cool video I have a Johny West, a white sheriff and Geronimo plus a horse (although the tail is broken I have to glue it back) I had fun with those figures later on they were friends with Steve Austin

[@Mitch_Ryder]

I had the whole Johnny West town and the covered wagon.

[@Jakob101st]

Same. Great stuff.

[@sonnysantana5454]

i had sam cobra and jonny west , but for some reason sam cobra always reminded me of the have gun will travel character = paladin

[@markallandryden2965]

Paladin! Me too.

[@johnnyssik]

Great upload 👍

[@donparesi5854]

I remember Johnny west I had one!

[@brianhenson4128]

I had johnny west. Wish I still had him. One of my first action figures

[@markallandryden2965]

They are getting a bit hard to find intact these days. I know that there was a reproduction JW made using the original molds along with the blue, silver, gold and black nights,as well as a Custer reproduction. They pop up on ebay along with the 60s and 70s figures.

[@brianhenson4128]

@@markallandryden2965 My dad got the reproduction of the viking. I wish I could find a repro of johnny west

[@Jimmersaunt]

My brothers and I had these-I had the Jane West figure.

[@acrodave9287]

We had the Marx Noble Knights in the UK, I have a boxed complete Gold Knight and horse and a loose Silver Knight. I later found out that the armour for the knights and the horse were modelled on real examples of armour still on display in the British Museum! PS: The early GI Joe/Action Man figures with the plastic hands had an inverted thumbnail to discourage bootlegs! It didn't stop Pedigree Toys from marketing Tommy Gunn figures though..! 😂👍✌️

[@markallandryden2965]

There was another company that actually got sued by hasbro because they used the hands to make their action figure. It was called RedBox Toys. I have a Gold Knight with the armour. It's a reissue. I actually put the armour on a modern GI Joe figure from around 1999 , took the knights head, and put it on a Captain Maddox body . Then, I took the Maddox head and put it on a Sam Cobra body. The Sam Cobra head was first used on the Sir Stuart the Silver Knight. There was a television program in the 1960s. It was called the Wild Wild West. The main character was James West. Marx Toys created a James West character but was not granted license by the TV show . So they took James Wests body and accessories, added the silver knight head to it, and made the figure known as Sam Cobra Renegade Outlaw. They took the James West head and put it on an American calvary figure body. Thus creating the Captain Maddox figure. I believe England had a figure known as "Cowboy Kidd" the James West- Maddox headsculpt was used with that figure too along with a black haired Johnny West headsculpt.

[@RobertHunt-tn4jz]

I had a knight and a horse wheels on the bottom

[@jimbear62]

I had the silver knight My mother gave it away back in the '70s ☹

[@RobertHunt-tn4jz]

Our mothers a wonderful those that truly love but their Commander creator can never put in their head that toy or toys or comic books are collectors items I lost many things I loved sometimes you can be around your best friend and sometimes you play alone is Star Wars figures and other things are your friends but as a kid nobody tells you what a collector is and what you love is gone forever unless of course you're rich

[@msrb8759]

Ah, Johnny West. The frying NF pan, the Bowie knife,…..

[@sergioomar9090]

These are so cool😎

[@mountainman.4478]

Johnny West and Gijoe...kung fu grip were going strong in 1974. I was 10 years old. Along with mego superheroes. That's when they made real toys!

[@RobCrupper]

Nice! I had a Johnny West and the Chief!

[@markallandryden2965]

I loved all the accessories that were included. Although some were somewhat difficult to put together for a 6 or 8 yr old.

[@manofaction1807]

I still love the crayon smell.

[@beastmanreview009]

Awesome!

[@IvanhoeWolfe-zn6fc]

Well you answer my question rather quickly. My brother and I had GI JOE FROM 74 or 75. I know it was one of those two years. And was curious on the first gi joe.

[@rjwalker4153]

I had GI Joe and also the Marx General Custer as a kid in the 60's. Marx also made some Knight figures that were cool . Unlike the Cherokee, the General Custer figure held up pretty well and seldom broke. I bought one a few years ago and it still was in nice condition.

[@markallandryden2965]

A couple years ago remarx reproduced Custer, the knights, and Johnny West

[@rjwalker4153]

@@markallandryden2965 Yeah, I saw some of those. But some of the vintage figures were not much more expensive. For me, I wanted the exact type of Custer figure I had as a kid, so nothing but vintage interested me. If one is patient, they can often find a vintage figure that is priced to sell. I did, I even got an original box with mine. Now GI Joes are a different matter. Vintage ones in their original boxes are usually very pricey. But some of the Marx figures are quite reasonable. You were certainly right about the Cherokee chief though. Almost all of them on ebay were broken. So mint ones of those were more pricey.

[@UsualmikeTelevision]

Amazing collection!!!

[@markallandryden2965]

Thanks for watching

[@penelop96]

Johnny West figures !!! I had those.

[@markallandryden2965]

They were fun Toys!

[@billharvey9836]

I still have my GI JOE ORIGINAL FOOT LOCKER

[@LifeofWalk]

This is amazing and all in MINT condition!

[@markallandryden2965]

Thanks, Not mint condition though.

[@barbaraselletti6520]

I had Johnny and Jane West.

[@markallandryden2965]

Great toys for kids!

[@chrismemphis8062]

They weren't cheap, $2 in 1965 is $20 today.

[@markallandryden2965]

That's for sure

[@greenman5229]

$1 in the 1960s vs $30 for a gi Joe today. The US dollar hasn't been doing too hot

[@joshuabekel9700]

Nope.

[@scarecrow559fresno]

we need trump

[@johnnyssik]

Did you buy your trimp shoes and Bibles? He sells them out of the trunk of a car.😅

[@peka__]

A dollar in 1960 has the same value of 10 bucks today, though. Still an increase, but perhaps not as much as many will think - especially if you consider that GI Joe has a brand history and a different target audience today.

[@Mr.Boglin]

Man... i want that Double Agent figure! lol

[@larryaldrich4351]

Mom bought me the Chief in 1966.

[@JB-js4xi]

Wow that's a nice collection!

[@sawysauce1256]

Wow they come with so many accessories and clothing, these would be 100$ minimum if they were released today.

[@lomaxx1138]

it was called a Stoney smith figure.

[@markallandryden2965]

Did you have one in a poly bag with header card?

[@RobertHunt-tn4jz]

My little sister had Jane West.

[@tygrkhat4087]

I seem to remember that Johnny and Jane West had a son and daughter; plus all the horses and tackle for all of the characters, which included Gen. Custer.

[@markallandryden2965]

Marx produced two girls and two boys to the Johnny West lineup.

[@tygrkhat4087]

@@markallandryden2965 I saw that later in another video.

[@alex35agm]

I still have a Johnny West figure,although he's not my original one,which got destroyed by me as a kid.I threw him in the air and he broke when he landed.Very dumb,but I was young.The current one I bought second hand at a toy convention for $30.He's missing his hat and rifle,but has his spurs.I had his horse at one time too.

[@markallandryden2965]

I loved throwing my action figures up in the air and watching them fall. Well, untill they broke. Lol.

[@nomadmarauder-dw9re]

Firecrackers and B.B. guns. ​@@markallandryden2965

[@redman9pablo]

Awesome figures, very interesting video

[@markallandryden2965]

Thankyou!

[@marcoantoniomarquezperez2652]

OMG I had these and the Nobel Knights. Wasn't thee a guy with a goat-T to face off with Johnny West.

[@RobertHunt-tn4jz]

I had GI Joe he had he had the wooly hair but I don't remember that Kung Fu grip I also had the play set with a shark

[@markallandryden2965]

So, you had a Man of Action ( no beard)or Adventure Team (with mustache and beard) 1970s Era. I was getting too old to play with Joe's by the early 1970s, but I'm not too old now! Lol😁

[@crypticcowboy2409]

Very cool.

[@markallandryden2965]

Thanks 😊

[@thiagorique8954]

Awesome, can you tell me if i can easily plug a marx hand on gi joe? i always wondered that, it would make joe much more efficient to hold things,

[@markallandryden2965]

Yes, the marx hands can be modified to fit with a GI Joe wrist peg. Or some other wrist peg. I think I might do a video on the process. I did a few of them many years ago

[@paulbervid1610]

I had a Sgt. Stone because GiJoes were hard to find.

[@markallandryden2965]

Did it come in a box, or was it in a bag with a header card?

[@paulbervid1610]

@markallandryden2965 box. It was hard to get gijoe when he first came out. He had a Bar.

[@jeannesnell1203]

Hey Mark I think we used to trade Joes and Buddy charlies back in the ToyShop Newspaper Days, any chance that was you, Jim L from N.H.

[@markallandryden2965]

We very well could have Jim! I loved that paper. Are you still trading and selling ?

[@markallandryden2965]

Hey Jim, Are you still trading and selling?

[@nomadmarauder-dw9re]

That ain't s$$t. Over in England it's like 200 pounds sterling. Go to Gary's Action Man.

[@markallandryden2965]

My my too high for my change purse😮

[@mikejacobson14]

My brother and I had Chief Cherokee and a couple of calvary figures. A captain and a sergeant. Do you have any examples of those? I had the spy when I was even younger, and GI Joe, of course. The best toys ever!

[@markallandryden2965]

I had the Custer and Captain Maddox figures, Marx also made a Zeb Zachary calvary figure.

[@mikejacobson14]

@@markallandryden2965 I forgot to mention that we had Geronimo, some horses, and maybe the cowboy. I don't really remember him, but I can definitely see his hat in my memory.