Martha Kent (Earth-1)

## Martha Kent

For the Earth-2 Martha Kent, see Martha Kent (Earth-2).

**Martha Kent** is the adoptive mother of Clark Kent, otherwise known as Superman.

## Biography

### Raising Superman

At some point, Martha Kent and her husband Jonathan found a baby, which had crashed to Earth in Smallville, where they lived. Though they would not find out why until decades later, this baby had been sent from the destroyed planet Krypton, in order to ensure its survival. Martha and Jonathan decided to adopt the baby, seeing as there was no one else for that role, and gave it the name Clark, raising him as their son on their farm. Soon, they would find out that their child had extraordinary abilities, such as super strength, as demonstrated when he lifted a tractor with only one hand. While they didn’t know why he had these abilities, they thought it to be the best thing to keep his powers a secret and raised their boy as a Human, and as humble and kind as possible. Together with him, they had also found a strange pyramide shaped object, though they couldn’t find out what it was. Years later, Clark would leave in order to move to Metropolis, where he pursued a career as an investigative journalist. Later, when Clark was about to begin at his first day, Martha and Jonathan spoke to him over a video chat and instructed him about how to bind his tie. However, they also warned him that with his arrival in Metropolis, news articles about a "flying man" were starting to pop up.

### Visited by a stranger

Sometime later, Clark returned to Smallville and talked to his parents about a collegue of his, who wanted to expose the truth behind the new super powered hero Superman, as he had become known. They advised him that, no matter what he decided to do, he had to live with the consequences. As they returned to their farm, they noticed an unknown person waiting for them in front of their house. Martha and Jonathan left the car in order to talk to the stranger, while Clark stayed inside. The mysterious figure asked for the whereabouts of their son, but the Kents would not give their adopted child up that easily. They tried to talk him off, but as he begann to seemingly threaten them, Jonathan told Martha to stay behind, before being paralyzed by the stranger. Before he could do anything, Clark attacked him from behind. He then revealed himself to be another alien from the planet Mars called J’onn J’onzz, who only wanted to speak to their son and meant no harm to them. After everything was cleared up, they went inside the house. Martha made tee for her son and their guest and then left them alone to discuss everything. The morning after, J’onn was long gone, she approached her son and presented him a new costume she had made for him, seeing as his last fights had left his clothing mostly torn to shreds. She made it out of the only material she knew had been in space, the blankets in which he was covered when he arrived on Earth. Clark then flew off and returned to Metropolis, where soon after, he would present himself to the rest of the world.

## Abilities

* Farming
* Sewing

## Relationships

Family:

* Jonathan Kent - Husband
* Clar Kent/Superman - Adoptive Son

Allies:

* J'onn J'onzz/Martian Manhunter

## Trivia

* **Martha Kent** was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and first appeared in DC comics in Superman #1 in May 1939.