With more than five decades involvement with Popeye, Bud Sagendorf ranks as the longest -running artist associated with the character. While Segar purists may pooh-pooh him as an also-ran, there’s no denying that Sagendorf made Popeye his own. Here’s a 1959 comic book example.

http://www.bigblogcomics.com/2010/07/popeye-no-49-july-september-1959.html

Elementary, my dear Watson, here’s DC’s mid-seventies Sherlock Holmes unintentional one-shot from Denny O’Neil and the unsung Philippines artist E R Cruz. “Quick, Watson! The game is afoot!”

http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2010/07/if-you-blinked-you-missed-dcs-sherlock.html

Here’s a whole bunch of little-seen 1970′s cover layouts from Marvel’s Mirthful Marie Severin, compared and contrasted with the final published products by her and/or various artists.

http://ripjaggerdojo.blogspot.com/2010/07/marie-severin-preliminary-study.html

Finally, here’s a similar piece about collaboration in seventies Marvel comics, this one detailing the work and work habits of the early Conan the Barbarian art team, Barry Smith and Dan Adkins.

http://cloud-109.blogspot.com/2010/07/demon-that-devoured-hollywood-smith.html