Part VI:, P, 575- 612 Summary

Ch. 14: Joe thinks of how comics have helped him escape from an ugly reality. He has been working on a huge comic strip about the Golem of Prague, which Sammy reads. Ch. 15: Sammy reads the strip and loves it and also admits that he is still homosexual and why he married Rosa. Sheldon Anatol stops by and says that he has been stopped by a law suit from publishing the Escapist comics and is trying to sell Empire Comics. Joe wonders whether he should buy the business but hesitates.

Ch. 16: A couple days later, there is a delivery to Sammy's house in Bloomtown, of a large coffin-like wooden box. Joe has been gone all day in the family car. Joe finally arrives back, amid fear that he has vanished again. Joe had left early to go for...