These two images, along with others that were part of a series devoted to Marvel Comics hero's, were put up at auction at artnet.com in July 2009. I do not know the auction results (access requires a paid membership with artnet). The pre-auction estimates on these silk screen pieces were priced approximately at $300 per item. Matos prints often auction at final prices of $1000 to $2000.

Considerably more lucrative than what genuine comic book art typically goes for on a per page basis (depending of course on who the artist is.) Also consider also we're only talking about screen prints of a single original.

There is an irony to the division between the fine arts and the commercial art field of Comic Books: images borrowed and blown up in size and colorfully presented to the right audience garner the praises and economic benefits that doesn't typically transfer across the chasm from fine art to the field of professional comic book art production.

Matos' images, and their acceptance, are couched in the pop-art sensibility that considers them not for what they actually are (not particularly well done superhero renderings) but for something else that supercedes the images themselves. But what is that?