SPARKLING ROCKET FIGHTER SHIP 5 - MARX - USA

Red tin wind up rocket with retro style litho. A reuse of the pre-war Buck Rogers Rocket Ship pressing. Forward motion with sparks from the rear. Louis Marx USA

Note: This rocket is Marx's own in house rocket ship, a reworking of an earlier design and carries no reference to Flash Gordon. The box is the same, except the words "Flash Gordon" are not printed behind the pilot's head or on the wing and the nose cone has a black stripe with the Marx logo only. Versions are known with and without the number 5 on the wing.

Catalog photos sometimes show it without a tailfin, but production models have the tailfin.

Current earliest sighting is in a newspaper advertisement in November 1951, confirmed in the Montgomery Ward 1951 catalog.