Marx Joe Penner and Duck Tin Windup toy for Sale *SOLD*

Marx Joe Penner and Duck Tin Windup toy for sale

Our Joe Penner toy is something of a historical footnote and a superb tin toy by Marx.  Windup this Great Depression era toy and watch him scoot across the floor with his comic relief Duck.  In the day, he was known as a vaudeville comic as well as a radio comic.

Our tin toy appears original and has a great hat action.  As joe scoots and his feet shuffle, the hat tips up and down with a fast action.  Add in the cigar and you get an iconic toy.

Condition appears all original and the toy works very well.

From IMDB:  “Mostly forgotten today, radio comic Joe Penner was a major craze back in Depression-era 1933 and 1934. There was no heavy social significance to his work and certainly no subtlety — just alot of slapstick silliness that helped audiences forget their troubles and get happy. People today equate Penner’s zany, simpering, man-child delivery to that of a Pee Wee Herman or Jerry Lewis. Born Josef Pinter in Hungary, he arrived as a child in New York City. He changed his name to Joe Penner and became fairly successful on the vaudeville and burlesque circuits as a Lou Costello-like patsy. His catchphrase “Wanna buy a duck?” started here. The story goes that in his routine he would customarily go out on stage with some sort of prop and say to his straight man, “Wanna buy a…” whatever the prop was. No laughs basically until one day when he went out on stage with a wooden decoy and said, “Wanna buy a duck?” The house went wild. “