Because it was a popular gathering spot, Sunday mornings found some boys walking around the Legion, looking for money that may have dropped from the pockets and hands of the visitors.

Although intended as a one-off story focusing on Superboy, the Legion proved so popular that it returned for an encore in Adventure Comics # 267 ( December 1959 ).

The Legion celebrated issue # 300 ( June 1983 ) by revisiting the " Adult Legion " storyline through a series of parallel world short stories illustrated by a number of popular Legion artists from previous years.

His refusal of the cross of the Legion of Honour offered to him by Napoleon III angered those in power but made him immensely popular with those who opposed the current regime, and in 1871 under the revolutionary Paris Commune he was placed in charge of all the Paris art museums and saved them from looting mobs.

Once again, the Legion feature proved so popular that by Superboy No. 197 ( Sep 1973 ), the Legion had become the lead feature, and with the next issue, the title's only feature.

Category: French Foreign Legion in popular culture

After the political corruption scandal surrounding the President's son-in-law Daniel Wilson, who was secretly selling Legion of Honor medals to anyone who wanted one, the Republican government was brought into disrepute and Boulanger's popular appeal rose in contrast.

" Weisinger certainly wasn't averse to tapping ideas wherever he found them, later buying a story from Jim Shooter while unaware of the writer's age, and hiring him for a popular run on " The Legion of Super-Heroes " even after discovering that he was only 14 years old.

Until the Reformation it was a popular pilgrimage site where the relics of the martyrs of the Theban Legion were revered.

When he returned to comics after a hiatus, his style was more precise and reminiscent of George Pérez and Jim Starlin, and helped make Legion of Super-Heroes DC's second most popular comic after Pérez's New Teen Titans.

Clubs catering for riders ' rights such as the Motorcycle Action Group, and charities like the The Royal British Legion Riders Branch are also popular.

Although the French recorded that Dirlewanger was buried on June 19, 1945, there were rumors and tabloid stories suggesting that he had escaped, including one popular story of Dirlewanger serving with the French Foreign Legion in the First Indochina War and later defecting to Egypt to accept a commission in Gamal Abdel Nasser's army.

The sport was mentioned repeatedly in the Legion of Super-Heroes comics as being one of the most popular sports of the fictional 30th century DC Universe and is the favoured sport of Illuminati University.

The arena is very popular for community ice hockey, annually hosting both the Sydney Academy Blue and White Pepsi Challenge Cup and the Royal Canadian Legion Bantam AAA Challenge Cup.

He was then at the height of success, having won various gold medals in the Competitions of the popular Paris Universal Exhibitions in 1839, 1844 and 1855, the Council Medal in London in 1851 and, in that same year, the Legion of Honour.

Category: French Foreign Legion in popular culture

Legion, the demon of Gadarenes, appears frequently as a character in popular culture.

Estimates of the personnel at Legion Ville vary, but 2, 500 is the popular figure.

* Legion in popular culture

* Legion in popular culture

Its use was spread from eastern Europe by the Polish Legion, fighting for the French in the Napoleonic Wars, and became popular not only among Napoleon's French and allied forces, such as Westphalia, Bavaria, Saxony and Naples, but also among the armies of his enemies.

In 2009, trucks were spun off into the Ram brand, named after the brand's most popular truck, the Dodge Ram.

By far the most successful and popular was Harold Peary's Gildersleeve, spun into The Great Gildersleeve in 1941.

( 1977 ) itself spun off from the hugely popular British TV show The Sweeney, and the first episode of Minder, Gunfight at the O. K.

The characters of Superman and Batman were then spun off into a new animated series, Justice League, which also featured other popular DC Comics characters, including Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, Hawkgirl and The Flash.

Two pages of comic strips became a popular feature, many spun off from feature stories.

Varney's character Ernest proved so popular that it was spun off into a TV series, Hey Vern, It's Ernest!

This practice is also fairly common in certain comics, such as Svetlana Chmakova's Dramacon, which makes several product-placement-esque usages of " Pawky ", ( a modification of the name of the Japanese snack " Pocky ", popular among the anime and manga fan community in which the story is set ) or Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon, which includes numerous references to the series Codename: Sailor V, which Sailor Moon was spun off of ; the anime makes further use of this meta-referential gag, going so far as having an animator on a Codename: Sailor V feature film be a victim in one episode.

Since Avaya is a company spun off from Lucent Technologies, itself a spinoff of AT & T, Avaya continues to sell and support well-known telephone models for businesses that were made popular in the heyday of the Bell System, including the 2554 wall phone, and the 2500 series desk phone, both popular Western Electric models.

The phenomenon was parodied in the book The Munchkin's Guide to Powergaming, which in turn spun off the popular Munchkin series of dedicated deck card games.

The series proved popular enough that midway through the 1976 – 1977 season, Quincy was spun off into its own weekly one-hour series.

Sanford and her TV husband, Sherman Hemsley, were so popular that The Jeffersons was spun off into its own series.

This name was chosen after looking at popular car hubcaps and noting how they spun around on a car's wheel.

IDG Books, which was a public company spun off from the privately held IDG, published the popular self-help "... For Dummies " books.

The concept for this site spun off from the extremely popular blogging section of the MyFox site.

However, it was immensely popular in Hong Kong and spun 9 sequels and spin-offs.

The Jamaica Inn ’ s past notoriety as the pirates ' den was known to Maurier three years before she wrote her book, when she had lived in the inn, and on the basis of which she had spun her popular novel the “ Jamaica Inn ”, which was adopted into a melodramatic film of the same name made by Alfred Hitchcock.

The show was popular enough to spawn three sequels, and was later spun off into a syndicated TV series.

By 2004, Rennie had become the " number two " writer on the Judge Dredd strip, following up a number of subplots initiated by its principal author, John Wagner, as well as developing his own situations and guest characters, some of whom have spun off into popular stories of their own.

The hope was that if, after 10-12 serial episodes, a serial caught on, that it could be spun off as a series, but the series aired opposite " Happy Days " and " Laverne and Shirley ", the # 1 and # 2 most popular shows in television at the time, and was cancelled after 10 episodes.

Ng's turning point in his acting career came in Young and Dangerous ( 1995 ), as villain Ugly Kwan, which was so popular that it spun an unofficial spin-off in Once Upon a Time in Triad Society ( 1996 ).

Dreamwave spun off from Image in 2002 after acquiring the license for the popular Transformers toyline from Hasbro.

The segment, which placed Cox onstage with local conservative host Fred Honsberger, radio host Lynn Cullen, and think-tank advisor Jerry Bowyer became so popular that it was spun off into a separate show called Off Q.

Sales were not diminished however, as their use as fleet models by taxicab companies became so popular, that by 1960 a whole new model, the Plymouth Taxi Special, was spun off from the Savoy.