After arriving on earth, Baby Kal-El is found by Eban and Martha Kent, as they are then named. As he grows, the toddler exhibits special powers which he uses to help his parents around the farm. .As a boy, Clark (Alan Dinehart III) helps Ma (Virginia Carroll, left) find her missing wristwatch in a haystack. As a teen (Ralph Hodges, below), he saves Pa during a storm that has knocked a power line onto the family car. These scenes are from the first chapter, "Superman Comes to Earth" of the serial, Superman produced by Sam Katzman for Columbia Pictures.

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