Last time, the Human Torch (who, despite his name, is a robot) decided to join the NYPD, under the alias Jim Hammond.
This issue picks up by showing what he's been up to since:
Damn robots, with their super-efficiency, takin' our jerbs.
Jim goes to Coney Island to look around, which is fortunate for the people at Coney Island, because Prince Namor shows up just then, ready to indisciminately maim and kill (since Der Fuhrer's men have been slaughtering Atlanteans, and all surface-worlders are the same to him). The Torch fights him off: