the fish-headed king (does he have a name?)


"Emperor Thakorr", though I don't think it was revealed until much later (the sixties?).

I don't have these masterworks here at the moment, so I can't comment much on the comics themselves, but I'm going to commit sacrilege and mention that I find the first Torch story to be better than the first Namor story.

Out yonder, under the shining vault, among men the saying goes: 'Man, be thyself!'
At home here with us, 'mid the tribe of the trolls, the saying goes: 'Troll, to thyself be-enough!'