BB, are you familiar with the "Today's Inspiration" blog?
Leif Peng posts a boatload of old illustartion art.
On August 18th of last year, he posted lots of illos from the "Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles" book: Link
The latest artist he focuses on is William Smith: Link
Thanks for the link. I had forgotten our discussion about the Crane and Shuster connection. In my mind, Crane, Caniff, Sickles and Shuster are all connected as if they studied with each other. Toth was one of their off spring. But as Scrooge points out, the connection is most obvious with Crane and Shuster. However, other contributions to the Superman style, such as costume design and perspectives, are probably influenced by Raymond.