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Legion and IDW
* Star Trek / Legion of Super-Heroes # 5 ( IDW Publishing, 2012 )

Legion and Publishing
* The Arab Legion ( Men-at-arms ) ( Paperback ) by Peter Young, 48 pages, Osprey Publishing ( 15 Jun 1972 ) ISBN 0-85045-084-5 and ISBN 978-0-85045-084-2
* Scruggs, C. Eugene, " Tramping with the Legion: A Carolina Rebel's Story ", Trafford Publishing, Victoria, BC, 2006.
* In I Am Legion, released by Devils Due / Humanoids Publishing, Legion is a child who is able to control the minds of men.
Although not mentioned in the film itself, all of the licensed support material and merchandising for the film make this reference, including Hasbro's 501st Legion action figures, the DK Publishing Star Wars Visual Dictionary books, and the Star Wars: Battlefront II game ( the story-driven campaign mode of Battlefront II even expanded the role of the 501st Legion to the main fighting force in almost every battle in the " Clone Wars " and " Galactic Civil War " eras of Star Wars, from the Battle of Geonosis to the Battle of Hoth ).

Legion and ),
Following the downfall of Czechoslovakia and occupation of its Czech part by Nazi Germany in 1939, Czechoslovak units and formations served with the Polish Army ( Czechoslovak Legion ), the French Army, the Royal Air Force, the British Army ( the 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade ), and the Red Army ( I Corps ).
In World War I, the Foreign Legion fought in many critical battles on the Western Front, including Artois, Champagne, Somme, Aisne, and Verdun ( in 1917 ), and also suffered heavy casualties during 1918.
During the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 54 ), the Foreign Legion saw its numbers swell due to the incorporation of Second World War veterans who couldn't adapt to civilian life.
Constantly on call throughout the country, heavily engaged in fighting against the National Liberation Front and the Armée de Libération Nationale ( ALN ), the Foreign Legion was brought to the brink of extinction after some officers, men and the highly-decorated 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment took part in the Generals ' putsch.
By 1962 the morale of the Foreign Legion was at an all-time low ; it had lost its traditional and spiritual home ( Algeria ), elite units had been disbanded, and in addition, many officers and men were arrested or deserted to escape prosecution.
Some notable operations include: the Chadian – Libyan conflict in 1969 – 72 ( the first time that the Foreign Legion was sent in operations after the Algerian War ), 1978 – 79, and 1983 – 87 ; Kolwezi in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 1978 ; Rwanda in 1990 – 94 ; and the Côte d ' Ivoire ( the Ivory Coast ) in 2002 to the present.
** 13th Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion ( 13 DBLE ), based in United Arab Emirates, formerly in Africa ( Djibouti ).
His first wife, Betsy Blair, was suspected of being a Communist sympathizer and when MGM, who had offered Blair a part in Marty ( 1955 ), were considering withdrawing her under pressure from the American Legion, Kelly successfully threatened MGM with a pullout from It's Always Fair Weather unless his wife was restored to the part.
In Black Legion ( 1937 ), for a change, he played a good man caught up and destroyed by a racist organization, a movie Graham Greene called " intelligent and exciting, if rather earnest ".
Caracalla's maternal aunt, Julia Maesa, successfully instigated a revolt among the Third Legion to have her eldest grandson ( and Caracalla's cousin ), Elagabalus, declared emperor in his place.
During his life Cocteau was commander of the Legion of Honor, Member of the Mallarmé Academy, German Academy ( Berlin ), American Academy, Mark Twain ( U. S. A ) Academy, Honorary President of the Cannes film festival, Honorary President of the France-Hungary Association and President of the Jazz Academy and of the Academy of the Disc.
The first documented case is that of Marie-Angélique Duchemin ( 1772 – 1859 ), who fought in the Revolutionary Wars, received a military disability pension in 1798, the rank of 2nd lieutenant in 1822, and the Legion of Honor in 1852.
* HMS Legion ( 1914 ), a Royal Navy ship sunk in 1921
* Voldemārs Ozols ( 1884 – 1949 ), aka Society of the Cavaliers of the Order of Lāčplēsis & Freedom Fighters " Legion ", Latvian veterans ' organization
* " Legion " ( Law & Order: Criminal Intent ), the eighteenth episode in the second season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
* " Legion " ( Red Dwarf ), the second episode of Red Dwarf Series VI
* Legion ( Marvel Comics ), an antihero in Marvel Comics
* Legion ( DC Comics ), a supervillain in DC Comics
* The Legion ( comics ), one of the comic books where the Legion of Super-Heroes was published
* Legion ( Image Comics ), a group of characters from the Spawn series
* Legion ( demon ), a group of demons referred to in the Christian Bible
* Legion ( novel ), a 1983 novel by William Peter Blatty

Legion and comic
* Ghostbusters: Legion, a 2004 comic book series
* In the comic book Legion of Super-Heroes ( Number 6, July 2005, DC Comics ), Cosmic Boy avers that the Bar Code on the cover of comic books is " destined to become outlawed in the Design Aesthetic Wars of 2013.
After his Legion series ended its run in Adventure Comics, Shooter retired from the comic book industry, as he concurrently graduated from high school and the Legion of Super-Heroes stories were relegated to a small back-up feature in Action Comics in the late 1960s.
Shooter's return to the Legion, a little over 30 years from his previous run, was his first major published comic book work in years.
* Tellus ( comics ), a comic book character and member of the Legion of Super-Heroes
* In 1996, Marvel Comics and DC Comics teamed up to create Amalgam Comics it released several future-based comic book series called Legion of Galactic Guardians 2099
The first comic book published under the title Legion of Super-Heroes was a four-issue series published in 1973 that reprinted Legion tales from Adventure Comics.
A new Legion of Super-Heroes comic ( the third publication under the title ) was launched in August 1984.
Various alternative versions of the Legion of Super-Heroes have appeared in various DC comic books.
* In the satire comic normalman, there was a 33rd century team called the Legion of Superfluous Heroes.
* In New Year's Evil: Mr. Mxyzptlk # 1, Mxyzptlk attempts to recruit a parody of the Legion, called the Logjam of Super-Heroes, from his comic book collection.
It was also a common fixture in previous incarnations of the Legion of Super-Heroes comic books, and has appeared in the Star Wars Expanded Universe and Superman comics set in the future.
He co-wrote the script for Nacho Cerdà's feature debut The Abandoned ( 2006 ) and delivered the screenplay for Cerdà's upcoming comic book adaptation I Am Legion ( 2012 ).
Superboy continued to appear in the comic in reprinted stories and as a member of the Legion until the Legion's final issue, Adventure Comics No. 380 ( May 1969 ).
After the Legion pushed new Superboy stories out of Adventure Comics in 1963, Superboy became the only comic book to feature original Superboy stories.
Although from issue No. 197, the cover logo read " Superboy starring the Legion of Super-Heroes " (" and " replaced " starring " with # 222 ), the official title ( shown in the indicia ) of the comic remained Superboy until No. 231 ( Sep 1977 ), when the comic became Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes.

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