Complete 22-page story, published by DC Comics in "Superman" #48, Oct. 1990. Story was written by William Messner-Loebs and was titled "The Sinbad Contract." This is the first part of the story (which continued in "Adventures Of Superman" #471 and "Action Comics" #658). 11.25x16.75" artboards w/original pen and ink art by comic artist Curt Swan, best known as the artist most associated w/Superman during the period fans and historians call the Silver Age of comic books, producing hundreds of covers and stories from the 1950s through the 1980s. Swan's art was inked by Dennis Janke. Story deals w/a young Quraci boy who has gained powers and Superman intercepting and protecting pair of police who are attacked by armored villains w/heavy weaponry. The young Quraci boy visits his sister at the Lexcorp building where she works and they receive a package from a dying man. The same armored men are after this package, which contains a belt that amplifies the boy's powers, allowing him to repel the armored attackers and knock out Superman when the boy thinks he's being attacked by the Man of Steel. Last page reveals Lex Luthor in his L-shaped Lexcorp Tower, pondering his impending death from Kryptonite poisoning. Superman appears in total of 34 panels (w/additional appearances as Clark Kent in five panels). He is shown flying, being shot repeatedly and using his x-ray vision. Lex Luthor appears on two pages for total of nine panels. Pages have numbers at bottom center and various production notations on margins w/some paste-over corrections to text and one edit noting that Superman's "S" symbol needs to be larger having corrected paste-over. Each page has DC Comics copyright stamp on reverse 1990 date. Each page has also been signed by both Swan and Janke. Scattered handling wear/aging to margins w/one page (19) having scattered aging to about half of artboard. Rest of art remains clean and VF-Exc. Franco Toscanini Collection.