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Princess Fen

Princess Fen

Atlantean royalty, Princess Fen was the daughter of Emperor Tha-Korr, the wife of Leonard McKenzie and the mother of Prince Namor.

Name:
Princess Fen
Publisher:
Real name:
Fen
Aliases:
  • Queen of Seals
Birth date:
None
Gender:
Female
Powers:
  • Empathy
  • Intellect
  • Sub-Mariner
  • Telepathy
First issue:
Motion Picture Funnies Weekly (1939) #1 Here is the Sub-Mariner!
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Origin

Princess Fen was born to Emperor Tha-Korr and Queen Kora in the sub-Antarctic city of Atlantis.  By the time of Namor's birth, she appears to be the sole heir to the Atlantean throne.  She had two adopted brothers, Prince Byrrah and the father of Namora.

Creation

Princess Fen was created by Bill Everett in 1939 and appeared in Namor the Sub-Mariner's first story, published a few months prior to Marvel Comics #1.

Character Evolution

Golden Age

Bill Everett portrayed Fen as the most closely resembling the air breathers of her aquatic race, called the Sub-Mariners.

Silver Age

When Stan Lee and Jack Kirby brought Namor into the Silver Age they retold his origin story.  Like the rest of the Atlanteans, Fen was given blue skin.

Modern Age

Fen mostly appeared in flash backs during the Bronze and Modern Age, until the 1990s, when she appeared to be resurrected in Namor the Sub-Mariner.

Major Story Arcs

In Love with a Human

In 1920, the Altantean city beneath the Antarctic polar cap was damaged by ice breaking charges set off by the crew of the Oracle.  Fen was sent to spy on the ship and its crew.  While learning their language and spying on the air breathers, Fen and the captain, Leonard McKenzie, fell in love.  They were soon married.

Fen stopped sending reports back to Atlantis, and Tha-Korr, fearing his daughter had been discovered and was a prisoner, sent a group of warriors led by a young Krang to rescue her.  Ignoring Fen's protests, the Atlanteans engaged the crew, shot Captain McKenzie, and dragged the princess off the ship and back to Atlantis.  Months later, she bore Leonard McKenzie's child and named him Namor, which meant Avenging Son.

Seeming Death

When Atlantis was destroyed in 1950s by Paul Destine, Fen was believed to have perished.  But she had been found by Socus who switched her body with that of Artys Gran.

Issues

June 1963

October 1967

December 1967

May 1968

July 1968

November 1968

January 1969

May 1969

December 1970

June 1971

December 1971

October 1972

July 1974

July 1975

October 1975

December 1979

October 1983

September 1984

February 1986

November 1988

December 1988

March 1989

April 1989

May 1989

August 1989

October 1989

April 1990

February 1991

June 1991

November 1991

Volumes

1959

1963

1967

1968

1974

1977

1979

1984

1985

1988

1990

1991

1998

1999

2003

2006

2008

2009

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