Dr. Reese Kearns

Dr. Reese Kearns

A Metropolis scientist—a noted astronomer until he was branded a fraud and hoaxer many years ago for predicting the imminent arrival of a meteor that never fell—who regains his good name and his scientific reputation by establishing finally, in July 1956, that the reason his meteor never struck Earth as anticipated was that the infant Superman unexpectedly deflected it off course during his initial journey earthward from the exploded planet Krypton. (TGSB)

Years later, Superman recalls leaving the rocket transporting him to Earth as a baby and fighting an alien monster on an asteroid in space. Piecing the story together, Dr. Kearns's original hypothesis is shown to have been accurate after all (S No. 106/1, Jul 1956: "Superman's First Exploit!").