Yes, there is. Or there was. Santa was Louis Marx, a chubby, cigar-chomping captain of industry who created the Marx toy company, once the largest manufacturer of toys in the world. With his wife, ...

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 ...

Toys under the tree on Christmas morning weren't always made at the North Pole. For a half-century, until 1980, many were made in Erie and Girard by Marx Toys. The company founded by "Toy King" Louis ...

Marx Toys became a staple of Erie manufacturing not long after its founding by Louis Marx in Brooklyn, New York, in 1919. Marx had worked for the Ferdinand J. Strauss Company, a toy manufacturer in ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the first in a three-part series about Marx Toys and the people who made them. Toys under the tree on Christmas morning weren't always made at the North Pole. For a half-century, until 1980, ...