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How did Martha and Jonathan Kent become Clark Kent’s adoptive parents?

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Christopher Reeve as Superman in a blue suit with red cape and yellow belt, flying with one arm forward against a dark background in a publicity still from Superman: The Movie. — Superman Christopher Reeve in *Superman* (1978), directed by Richard Donner.

Martha and Jonathan Kent became Clark Kent’s adoptive parents after they discovered him as an infant in a rocket that had traveled from the doomed planet Krypton to Earth. The couple, who lived in the mid-American town of Smallville, found the child, named him Clark, and raised him as their own son.1

While his biological parents on Krypton had named him Kal-El, it was the Kents who gave him the name Clark Kent, which he would later use as his alter ego.21