Marx Johnny West Vintage Mexican Plastimarx Figure with reproduction box and accessories.

Figure is an extremely rare vintage 1975 Aguila Salvaje (Fighting Eagle) in rough condition with wear, soiling, and a cracked torso and split inside upper arm—see photos. Missing rare blue earrings, has some paint from a long-ago owner. Despite its condition, the rarity of this figure makes it valuable. For comparison, see photos showing it next to a USA and a Canadian Fighting Eagle—those two are NOT included in this listing.

Comes with incomplete CXR and vintage USA and unused reissue red soft accessories as shown. Also includes a reproduction one-piece box and a copy of the equipment manual.

Note on Plastimarx: Plastimarx was Louis Marx’s company in Mexico. He owned 51% of the company while his Mexican partner owned the rest. Every year, Marx would choose molds from his U.S. plants and have them sent to the Mexican factory where they used their injection machines to make the toys. Marx himself chose what to send and his partners found out what toys they were making when the molds arrived. There were at least two vintage series of Johnny West toys made and sold in Mexico. The first came in the 1960s and did not have a name—so collectors just call them the first editions. Those boxes are simply impossible to find—a reproduction of the Johny (Mexico left out an “n” in his name on the first edition box and manual but restored it in 1975) West box was made from one seen in an old video seen online and there has been one other box in the series found. The Lo Mejor Del Oeste series was released in 1975 and included versions of most of the 1974 Best Of The West and 1975 Johnny West Adventure lines made in the USA. The Mexican versions are mostly different from those in the USA, with different colors of bodies and often different colors of accessories. Plastimarx figures are rare and the loose figures typically sell in the $100-$200 range just by themselves. The vintage accessories are even harder to find than the figures and having any vintage pieces drives up the price. The vintage boxes are rarest of all and, with some of them, collectors know of only one box in existence. A figure and accessories in one of the most common of the vintage boxed sets typically sells for $500 or more. Some of the rarer ones sell for $1500 and the rarest have sold for $2500 or more. Fortunately, there are reproduction boxes and reissue accessories to make it possible to have a vintage figure in a boxed set and at a less expensive price.

Note on soft red accessories: These red soft Indian accessories were made in Sebring, Ohio, in the 1990s by Jay Horowitz’s American Plastics Company using the original Marx molds. Complete and unused, most pieces still attached to sprues/runners/trees. Color shade varies from deep red to almost pink. Some pieces need to reshaped with hot water followed by cold to set the shape.

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