Budiansky is also a penciller. He drew the final years of the Johnny Blaze/Zarathos version of Ghost Rider, as well as drawing the majority of "Ghost Rider" covers from 1978 to 1983 and co-plotting the series with its final writer, J. M. DeMatteis. Following the cancellation of "Ghost Rider", Budiansky and DeMatteis continued this method of collaboration in the limited series "Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner". Budiansky recalled, "Marc would typically map out the story arc, discuss it with me, I'd give him feedback, maybe come up with a few extra plot twists and turns, and suggest some scenes that might juice up the story visually. ... Marc had this four-issue story arc more nailed down than some of the "Ghost Rider" stories we worked on together, so I think I contributed less to the "Sub-Mariner" plots." Budiansky's covers for "Prince Namor" are an early example of interlocking covers; when the covers are placed together in two rows, the backgrounds flow into each other.