XXII/2 Dante and Virgil are distinctly 'Behind Enemy Lines' as the title graphic of this image states, and the poet in this canto has in fact become a kind of war-reporter. The various elements of this picture were culled from a single issue of 'Combat' magazine. All the excerpts are reprinted undoctored on a background colour that recalls that of pulp magazines and wartime printing. The only slight adaptation is in the character addressed as 'D. . .' in the bottom right hand frame where I have reinforced the slight resemblance to Dante originally possessed by the drawing. The central panel is one of the Devil drawings destined for the first image of Canto XXI (magnified X6). The individual excerpts were selected to reflect the eternal factionalism and race-hatred of war: Germans, English, Japanese all fare badly in these crude unequivocal commercial drawings and even Dante's own `Eyeties' look to be in trouble despite their having that national unity that was one of the Poet's dreams. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.