THIS IS FOR ONE GUIDE ONLY.  Choose from the ones listed below. 

 Now you can know exactly what your Marx play set contained as originally sold. You'll see pictures of each item, how many, and their colors. Pioneers, cowboys, Indians, soldiers, cannons, horses, fort pieces, accessories, wagons, knights, Vikings, character figures, dinosaurs, trees, tin buildings, tanks, trucks, Jeeps, army men, Germans, Japanese, etc. Each guide is 6 pages (3 front and back) with around 40 colored photos.   The photos shown are a few samples of the guides

 Each guide is the result of careful study of vintage catalogs, magazines, and buying and selling Marx play sets for many years. The guides were created by Steven Smith and are not original Marx items but contain photos of original Marx items. After you buy it just let me know the one guide you want listed below numbered 1 thru 45.  

MARX MISCELLANEOUS SETS

1.  Marx Alamo

Walt Disney’s Official Davy Crockett at the Alamo 3530 3534 3539 3540 3544—1955.

Alamo Play Set 3543 3545 3546—1960.  Sears Heritage Alamo 3548—1972.

2.  Marx Alaska

Arctic Explorer 3702 Series 2000, I.G.Y. Arctic Satellite Base 4800, 

D.E.W. Defence Line Arctic Satellite Base  4802—1958. Alaska Play set 3708—1959. 

3.  Marx Civil War

Battle of the Blue & Gray 4759 4760—1958. 4745 4746—1959. 4762—1960. 

2646—1960&62. Giant Blue & Gray 4763-4—1961.  Civil War Centennial Set 4758—1961. 

4658—1962. Civil War 4766—1962. Blue and Gray 4668—1962. 4744—1963. 

Sears Heritage 4765—1972. Storage box 2258—1976.

4.  Marx Revolutionary War

Marx Revolutionary War Set 3401 Series 500, 3404 Series 1000, 

Johnny Tremain 3402 Series 1000—1957. 3408 Series 2000—1959. 

Fort York 3640 Fort Mohawk 3752—1958. Sears Heritage Sons of Liberty 4170—1972.

5.  Marx Untouchables

The Untouchables 4676—1961

MARX ARMY SETS

6.  Marx Battleground

1958: Battleground 4749 4750 4750C 4752 Series 2000. 1960: 4751 Series 2000. 

1962: Battleground 4753 4754. Battleground Convoy 3745 3746. 

Army Battleground 4161 which is Sears 5960.  1963: Giant Battleground 4768. 

7.  Marx Specialty Army Sets I

Marine Beach-Head 4732MO—1959. 4734 4735—1960. 4736—1961. 

Marx Battle Field 4756-R—1958. Gallant Men 4632 4633—1963. 

8.  Marx Specialty Army Sets II 

1963: Marx D-Day 4160 4141 = Sears #s 6012 6027C. 

Army Combat 4158 4155 4148 = Sears #s 6019 6018 6017.  Beachhead Assault 0641.  

1964: Combat Landing Force 2649. American Patrol 4168 4165 = Sears #s 6007 6058. 

1965: WWII European Theater 4142 4182 = Sears #s 5938 5939.

9.  Marx Army Desert 

Marx Tank Battle 4172 4176 4180—1964.

Desert Fox 4177—1967.  4178MO—1972. Desert Patrol 4174—1967.

10.  Marx Army Japanese Sets

Marx Iwo Jima 4144 4147 4154—1964.  History of the Pacific 4164—1972.  Soldiers 50 Piece Set Storage Box 2255—1976. 

11.  Marx Battleground II

Marx Battleground 4756 4757—1964.  Battleground Terrain Set 4184—1966. Battleground 4204—1977.   Marx Boot Camp carry-all 4645—1968.  

 Marx Rhine River 4187—1972.  4198—1973.  

12.  Marx Navarone

Marx Navarone 3412—1972&1974. 4302 Navarone Giant—1977. 

Mego Navarone Giant 08058—1980  

13.  Marx Training Center 45mm 

1952—U.S. Army Training Center 4119 4120 4122 9253. 

1954—U.S. Army Training Center 4146.  Army & Air Force Training Center 4148 4158 4159.

1955—U.S. Army Training Center 4124.  1957—4133 Series 500 4134 Series 1000 & 4150C.

14.  Marx Armed Forces 45mm

U.S. Armed Forces Training Center 4150 Series 1000—1955.

4139 & 4144—1956.  4149 Series 500 & 4143 Series 1000—1957.

15.  Marx Armed Forces 54mm

Armed Forces Training Center 4151 Series 500, 4152 Series 1000—1958.  

Army Combat Training Center 4153 Series 2000—1958, 2654 4131—1959.

Armed Forces Training Center 4156—1960.  Armed Forces Missile Combat 4166—1961.   

MARX FORT SETS

16. Marx Fort Dearborn 3509 3510—1952. 3514—1953.  3688-MO 1972.

17. Ft Pitts & Boone

Marx Fort Pitt R-3741 Series 750 and 3742 Series 1000—1959.

Marx Daniel Boone Wilderness Scout 0631 0670 2640—1964.

18. Marx Zorro Walt Disney’s Official Zorro 3753 Series 500, R-3754 Series 750, 

3754 Series 1000—1958.  3758—1965.

19. Marx Fort Apache Stockade

3609—1951, 3612—1953,

3610 3614—1954, 3615 3616—1955.

20. Marx Fort Apache Rin Tin Tin 

Rin Tin Tin 3628 3627—1956. 3658 series 1000, 3657 series 500—1957. 3686-R Series 5000—1958. Canada Fort Apache non Rin Tin Tin 3632—1956. 3634—1957. Fort Apache w/Famous Americans 3630. Rin Tin Tin w/Famous Americans 3636—1956.

21. Marx Fort Apache 54mm

Marx Fort Apache 3660 3647 3675—1957.  3649 3660mo 3678—1958.  3682—1959. 3680 3680mo—1959 revised 1962.  

22. Marx Giant Fort Apache

Marx Fort Apache 3690—1961. 3692—1962. 3684 3694 3698—1964. 3685—1966. 

23. Marx 3681 Fort Apache Variations

Marx Fort Apache 3681 early 1964, revised mid 1964, 1967 & 1972. 3683—1968.  3681S—1973. 3681C—c.1967.

24. Marx Late 1960s-1970s Fort Apache

Marx Fort Apache Carry-all 4681—1967. 4685—1968. Marx Indian & Cavalry Set (Ward’s) 3682—1969. Marx Cavalry Set (Sears) 3687—1968.  Marx Heritage Fort Apache 3684—1972. Marx Fort Apache 3686 & 3681A—1975. 4202—1977. 

MARX ROY ROGERS and RANCH SETS

25. Marx Ranch 60mm

Marx Roy Rogers Ranch Set 3979 3980—1952. 

Western Ranch Set 3959 3960 3962 3963—1950.

Wild West Cowboys and Horses 3163 or 3164—1952

26. Marx Rodeo Ranch 60mm

Marx Roy Rogers Rodeo 3689 3690 & Marx Lone Ranger 3696—1952. 

Rodeo Ranch 3990—1953. 3985 3986—1954. 3992—1955

27. Marx Rodeo Ranch 54mm

Roy Rogers Rodeo Ranch 3988 Series 1000=Sears 5933, 3996 Series 2000=Sears 5917 

3987 Series 750—1957.  Roy Rogers Ranch 3989—1959.  3981 & 3982—1962. 

Big Ranch Western Rodeo 3999=Sears 5950—1962.

28. Marx Lone Ranger 

Marx Lone Ranger Rodeo 3696 1952

Marx Lone Ranger Ranch 3969 series 500 1957

29. Marx Rifleman and 54mm Ranch Round Up

Rifleman Ranch 3997 3998—1959.  

Storage Boxes:  Cowboys 50 Piece Playset 2257—1976.  Red River Gang 4104—1977.  

Johnny West Sets:  Roundup 3980.  Range 4194—1967.  Ranch 3978—1968.    

MARX ROY ROGERS and WESTERN TOWN SETS

30. Marx Western Town 60mm

Marx Western Town 4229 4230 & Roy Rogers Western Town 4257 4258:  1952.

Silver City Western Town 4256: 1954.  Silver City Frontier Town 4219 4220: 1955.

31. Marx Western Town 54mm 

Official Roy Rogers Western Town 4259 Series 5000—1957. Roy Rogers Mineral City 

4216 Series 2000, 4227R Series 750, 4255 Series 500—1958. Official Wyatt Earp Dodge City 

4228 Ser 1000—1957. Wyatt Earp Dodge City 4226 Ser 1000—1958.  Western Town 4680—1964.

32. Marx Gunsmoke and Mining Towns

Western Town 2652—1959. Gunsmoke 4268—1960.  Johnny Ringo 4784—1960. 

Mining Town 4265-66—1960. Sears Western Set 4260—1965. 

Legend of Jesse James 4218 4238—1966. Cattle Drive 3983—1972.  

33. Marx Wells Fargo

Marx Tales of Wells Fargo 4261, 4262 Series 2000, 4263 Series 500, 4264 Series 1000.

Official Tales of Wells Fargo Electric Train Set 54742 54752 54762. 

Wild West Train Set 2873.  All sets from 1959. 

MARX COWBOY and INDIAN SETS

34. Marx Ambush/Commanche Pass Mountain

Marx Comanche Pass 3416—1974.  Ambush at Falling Rock 3423—1975.

35. Marx Cowboys and Indians Miscellaneous Sets

Frontiersmen and Indians Set 3171 or 3172—1952.  

Cowboy and Indian Camp 3949 3950—1953.

Indian Warfare 4778 Series 2000 —1957.  Cowboy and Indian Set 2660—1958.  

36. Marx Custer 

Custer’s Last Stand 1957:  4779 Series 500 & 4780.  1963:  4670 Sears # 6014.  

The Battle of Little Big Horn 4679MO—1972. 

37. Marx Wagon Train

Official Wagon Train 4777 Series 2000—1958.  4788, 4788 Series 2000, 

4888 Series 5000, 4805 Series 2000—1959.

38. Guide to Marx Pioneers, Cavalry, and Indians.

MARX MEDIEVAL SETS

39. Marx Robin Hood and Castle Fort 

Medieval Castle Fort 4709 4710—1953.  Prince Valiant Castle Fort 4705 4706— 1954. 

Robin Hood Castle 4717 4718 4719 4720 4721 4722—1956.  4723 4724—1957

40. Marx Medieval and Knights & Vikings

Medieval Castle 4700 4708—1959. 4727—1963.  Medieval Playset 0630—1964.  

Medieval Castle w/ Moat 4704 4734—1964. 4707—1965. 

Knights & Vikings 4715 4735—1965. Fighting Knights Carryall 4635—1968. 

Knights and Vikings 4743MO—1972.  Knight and Viking Set 4733—1973. 

MARX PREHISTORIC SETS

41. Marx Early Dinosaur Playsets

Prehistoric Play Sets 3389 Series 500.  Prehistoric Times 3390 Series 1000—1957.

  3391 3392 Series 1000—1958.  Prehistoric 3388—1957.  3393 3394—1959.  

Prehistoric Play Set 2650 Prehistoric Times 3398—1961. Prehistoric Play Set 0645—1963

42. Marx 1970s Dinosaur Playsets

Prehistoric Dinosaur Play Set 4208 & 4209— 1978.  

The World of Dinosaurs Storage Box 4130—1979

Marx Prehistoric Play Set 3398—1971 

One million BC 3421—1974.  Prehistoric Mountain 3414—1975

43. Various Dinosaurs with Marx variations, MPC, Ajax, Dimestore, Lido, Timmee, and Marx and MPC Cavemen.

MARX SPACE

44. Marx Tom Corbet, Rex Mars

1952—Tom Corbett Space Academy 7009-10, Space Patrol Rocket Port 7020, Rex Mars Planet Patrol 7040.  1953—Tom Corbett Space Academy 7012, Rex Mars Planet Patrol 7014, Rex Mars Space Port 7024, Capt Space Solar Academy 7026.  1954—Rex Mars Space Drome 7015-16, Capt Space Solar Port 7018.  1955—Rex Mars Space Port 7004. 

45. Marx Cape Canaveral 1950s-early 1960s

Marx Cape Canaveral Missile Set 4526 Series 500 & 1000, 4526R Series 750, 4525—1958. 

Cape Canaveral 4521, 4522, 4524, 2656—1959. Cape Canaveral Missile Center 2686, 

Air Force Missile Center 2686—1959.  Atomic-Cape Canaveral 4528—1961.

46. Marx Cape Canaveral and Early 1960s-1970s

Marx Cape Canaveral 4535 4536—1961. Project Mercury 4524 3526—1962. 

Project Apollo 4523—1966. Cape Kennedy 4625—1968. Johnny Apollo 4630—1970 

47. Marx Moon Base and early 1970s sets

Marx Moon Base 4652 & Operation Moon Base 4654—1962.

Project Apollo Moon Landing 4646—1967. Marx Giant Martian Landing 4306—1977. 

Star Station Seven 4115—1978.  Galaxy Command 4206—1979.

48. Captain Gallant Playsets