Following closely on the heels of the incredibly popular FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND (and the less popular, but equally significant science fiction movie magazine SPACEMEN, as well as the Western TV and Western movies magazine FAMOUS WESTERNS OF FILMLAND, later renamed WILDEST WESTERNS), publisher James Warren and contributing editor Forrest J. Ackerman decided that the fan world was ready for a NEW magazine, entirely devoted to exciting movies, serials and television shows -- and thus created SCREEN THRILLS ILLUSTRATED.  At the time of the early 1960s, this was the ONLY newsstand magazine of its kind, and was the precursor for today's FILMFAX magazine.  STI was devoted to 1930s/1940s science fiction, mystery and adventure serials, as well as Westerns, stunt performers, jungle epics, super-heroes, military films, television action series, and so on -- any movie or television subject that lent itself to high action and teeth-grinding entertainment.  Alas, it only lasted 10 issues -- but, back in the early to mid-1960s, I read and re-read all those issues multiple times; and they opened up doors for me into movie and TV worlds of which I was previously unaware.  Check out the contents of this issue:

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Matinee Mail (Illustration by JACK DAVIS), with letters written by ROBERT TAYLOR ; STAN LAUREL ; JACK PERRIN ; JIM PIERCE ; PAUL HENNING ; LINDA STERLING & MAE CLARKE, plus photos of PAUL HURST & ADELE MARA

BOGART! -- with photos of HUMPHREY BOGART & MARY ASTOR & PETER LORRE from the film "THE MALTESE FALCON" ; with SIDNEY GREENSTEET from the movie "THE MALTESE FALCON" ; with WALTER HUSTON & BRUCE BENNETT & TIM HOLT & JOHN HUSTON from the movie "THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE" ; with JULIAN RIVERO from the movie "THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE" ; with ARTHUR KENNEDY & ALAN CURTIS & IDA LUPINO from the movie "HIGH SIERRA" ; with TREVOR BARDETTE & BOB STEELE from the movie "THE BIG SLEEP" ; with LESLIE HOWARD & BETTE DAVIS from the movie "PETRIFIED FOREST" ; with KATHARINE HEPBURN from the movie "THE AFRICAN QUEEN" ; with MIKE LANE from the movie "THE HARDER THEY FALL" ; with WILLIE BEST from the movie "HIGH SIERRA" ; with LAUREN BACALL from the movie "THE BIG SLEEP"

The Crafty Colonel -- by SAM SHERMAN -- with photos of ALAN MOWBRAY with EDDIE MARR & GEORGE CHANDLER & TOM DUGAN from the TV show "TELL IT TO A STAR" ; with FRANK JENKS from the TV show "TELL IT TO A STAR" ; with MIRIAM HOPKINS from the movie "BECKY SHARP" ; with GEORGE ARLISS from the movie "ALEXANDER HAMILTON" ; from the movie "CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE" ; from the movie "MY DARLING CLEMENTINE" ; from the movie "WAGONMASTER" ; with EDDIE CANTOR & HARRY CORDING from the movie "ROMAN SCANDALS" ; with WARNER OLAND in the movie "CHARLIE CHAN IN LONDON" ; with BASIL RATHBONE & NIGEL BRUCE in the movie "TERROR BY NIGHT"

The Return Of CAPTAIN AMERICA -- with photos of DICK PURCELL as CAPTAIN AMERICA, plus photos of GRANT GARDNER ; JAY NOVELLO ; KEENE DUNCAN ; KENNETH TERRELL ; GEORGE J. LEWIS ; LORNA GRAY aka ADRIAN BOOTH ; LIONEL ATWILL ; TOM STEELE ; GRANT GARDNER & JOHN DAVIDSON

Serials, Stunts And Six-Guns -- with photos of MACK V. WRIGHT from the movie "THE BLACK BOX" ; with TOM LONDON & GERTRUDE ASTOR from the movie "THE LION MAN"; with FRANKLIN FARNUM & MARIE WALCAMP; with GERRY WRIGHT & JOE GRAM & GEORGE SHERMAN from the movie "CAPPY RICKS RETURNS" ; with JACK PERRIN & KATHLEEN O'CONNOR & AL RUSSELL from the movie "THE LION MAN" ; with HOOT GIBSON; with JOHN WAYNE from the movie "MAN FROM MONTEREY" ; with J. P. McGOWAN & HARRY TENBROOK & BOB LIVINGSTON from the movie "HIT THE SADDLE" ; with J. P. McGOWAN & MAX TERHUNE & RAY CORRIGAN from the movie "HIT THE SADDLE" ; with JACK PERRIN from the movie "THE LION MAN" and "RAINBOW RIDERS" 

"THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD" -- with photos of ERROL FLYNN ; BASIL RATHBONE ; OLIVIA De HAVILLAND ; ALAN HALE ; HARRY CORDING & and others

From Gags To Gangsters -- by SAM SHERMAN, with photos of MILTON FROME, with RED SKELTON ; with JERRY LEWIS from the movie "IT'S ONLY MONEY" ; with JIM BROWN from the movie "POLICE DOG STORY" ; with JERRY LEWIS from the movie "THE DELICATE DELINQUENT" ; from the movie "RIDE 'EM COWGIRL" ; from the movie "THE LONELY MAN" ; with DOROTHY PAGE & HARRINGTON REYNOLDS ; with JAMES CAGNEY & BOB IVERS from the movie "SHORT CUT TO HELL" 

TOM KEENE, with photos from the film "THE GODLESS GIRL" ; with SALLY STARR from the film "PARDON MY GUN" ; with FRANK MELTON from the movie "THE GLORY TRAIL' ; with WERA ENGELS & CORNELIUS KEEFE from the movie "HONG KONG NIGHTS" ; with BUSTER CRABBE from the movie "DRIFT FENCE" ; with KENNE DUNCAN from the movie "RIDING THE SUNSET TRAIL"

WALLY WEST -- with FRANKLYN FARNUM & DELORES BOOTH & BILL McCALL & TONYA BEAUFORD & ALLEN GREER & HARRY KEATON & TEX MILLER & LEW MEEHAN & DENVER DIXON & HORACE CARPENTER  from the movie "DESERT MESA" ; with MERRILL McCORMACK & BLACKIE WHITEFORD from the movie "FIGHTING TEXAN" ; with JOHN WAYNE & EDDIE CHANDLER from the movie "THE DESERT TRAIL" ; with BOB STEELE & STEVE CLARK & KEN MAYNARD from the movie "DEATH VALLEY RANGERS" ; with Col. TIM McCOY from the movie "STRAIGHT SHOOTER" ; with TEX RITTER from the movie "WESTBOUND STAGE" ; from the movie "THE VIGILANTES ARE COMING" ; with BOB STEELE from the movie "BILLY THE KID'S FIGHTING PALS"

Private Screenings (photo shots from old films & serials, as requested by readers, featuring EDDIE POLO with JOHNNY MACK BROWN & BOB REEVES & ETHAN LAIDLOW ; BRUCE CABOT & KENT TAYLOR & WILLIAM BENDIX & BARTON MacLANE & RICHARD ARLEN & LON CHANEY Jr from the movie "LAW OF THE LAWLESS" ; WILLIAM DESMOND & DENVER DIXON from the movie "DEUCE DUNCAN" ; CHESTER MORRIS & GEORGE E. STONE & RICHARD LANE from the movie "BOSTON BLACKIE'S RENDEZVOUS" ; and JOHNNY SHEFFIELD from the movie "BOMBA AND THE JUNGLE GIRL"

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