Martha Kent

Jonathan and Martha Kent are the adoptive parents of Clark Kent. Before the total rewrite of the Superman story in 1986, the Kents were deceased. However, they are now very much alive. It was the Kents who first came upon the infant Superman after the experimental rocket that had borne him safely away from the exploded planet Krypton had landed on the planet Earth, and it was the Kents who opened their home and their hearts to the tiny orphan from space, who legally adopted him and raised him as their own son, and who imbued him with the urgent desire to use his mighty super-powers to aid the weak, the helpless, and the oppressed. In the texts, they are referred to as a kindly couple and as "two fine people, who gave a loving home to an orphan from space!"

In the town of Smallville, where they still live, the city has paid tribute to them by hanging their portrait in the Smallville City Hall. Before the rewrite, Superman had dedicated a room to them in his Fortress of Solitude. A hidden vault deep beneath the Fortress contained, among other super-secret possessions and memorabilia, photographs that the Kents took of their foster son and notebooks containing their personal account of how they found him. While he was still a teenager, Superman carved a spectacular space monument - in the form of a gigantic statue of the Kents with himself standing between them - into the side of a distant asteroid.

In Smallville, they are known as good neighbors and fine citizens. Superman has described them as the best foster parents who have ever lived.