Magazine Cover Art: Cyril Judd’s "Gunner Cade"

Astounding Science Fiction magazine
No. 256, March 1952
Cover: “Gunner Cade,” artwork by Pawelka

Issue contains the first of three parts of “Gunner Cade,” by Cyril Judd (Judith Merril and C. M. Kornbluth), the story of a professional soldier of the Realm of Man, who is captured by rebel forces on Mars but escapes, only to find that he is being hunted by fellow gunners.

"Gunner Cade" was quickly republished as a novel later in 1952.