Klaus Kerner

"I, Klaus Kerner, shall rule the world! That Bavarian upstart, Hitler, will kiss my feet!"

- Klaus Kerner

Klaus Kerner (alias Samuel Corn, alias Mr. Smith) was a colonel in the SS, tasked with investigating the lost city of Atlantis for the Third Reich.

In 1939, Kerner visited Dr. Indiana Jones at Barnett College. Dressed in plain clothes to disguise his true identity, he inquired about artifacts connected with the lost continent. Jones produced some such artifacts (unearthed years earlier during the Janis expedition), which Kerner stole. Returning to Germany, Kerner gave the items to Dr. Hans Ubermann who later discovered that the artifacts held the key to becoming immortal.

During the course of the ensuing adventure, Kerner had several further scrapes with Jones, now teamed with the psychic, Sophia Hapgood. When the two competing teams arrived at the object of their quest, the God Device, Ubermann made plans to set himself as the Third Reich's immortal leader; but the ambitious Kerner jumped into the machine first. His miscalculation became apparent when, within minutes, the device transformed him into a freakish monster and then annihilated him completely.

Appearances

 * Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
 * Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis comic