I've read a couple of the early issues of '90s Superboy, when it was written by Karl Kesel and drawn by Tom Grummett. Mostly though, I've seen him in team books (Young Justice), or guest appearances (The Ray.) As for this issue, I have it solely because it's the starting point for the brief Superboy/Batgirl romance, and I was curious how that got going.
The answer is, Superboy comes to Gotham to bug Robin (and avoid his problems), and gets mixed up in something involving people being experimented on and, well I'm not sure. Robin says their blood is pure sodium, but it looks more like their entire bodies are sodium. Either way, Batgirl notices Superboy has found a clue, they try to investigate, get captured, nearly die. Early 2000s Dickhead Batman starts in with, "I told you not to associate with metahumans, Batgirl," and Superboy insists it was as much his (Superboy's) screw-up as hers.
That's pretty much it. There's a bit when they're about to die where she asks him to talk, but that seems to be him just pouring out all the crap he didn't want to discuss, and Cassandra's using it to focus through the drugs enough to put an escape into action.
There's a background subplot about his powers acting up, a well different writers went to. Reading descriptions of some of the earlier issues, he had a stretch where his body started breaking down, the resolution of which meant he wouldn't age. Which seems to have been quietly discarded somewhere along the way. Certainly Geoff Johns and subsequent Teen Titans writers kept playing with the notion Conner would grow up to be Superman (usually a morally questionable one in an authoritarian timeline).
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