Marx was called the “café-society Santa” and the “Toy King of America”—fitting sobriquets for the maker of Depression-era tin windup toys and for later generations, such popular items as Rock ’Em Sock ...

An important producer of plastic soldiers in the U.S. was Louis Marx and Company, which produced soldiers of great detail and also historical collections of plastic men and women including a ...

Manufactured by Bergen Toy and Novelty Co. in 1938 in various poses depicting the combat roles of mid-20th century soldiers, ... plastic, Army Men toys could also be ... Co. was Marx Toy ...