Last month, you could buy eight copies of Robert Kirkman's Irredeemable Ant Man comic on eBay for a dollar. The first issue, even from the co-creator of The Walking Dead, might go for two dollars if you were lucky.

Not any more. Over the weekend, keen eyed speculators started snapping up any first issue under ten dollars.

The word is that Eric O'Grady, the rather uncouth and unpleasant Ant Man from that comic, will be the character seen in the upcoming movie by Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish.

And, anticipating increased interest in the character, the speculators have stepped in and cleaned up…