Built his own crystal set at ten and had a ham station by sixteen, buying parts with quarters earned bagging groceries. The team's radio-telecommunications specialist, for whom manning the radio is a job with a purpose. "The cavalry ain't comin' until the man with the radio tells 'em to."
Dial-Tone is a G.I. Joe team operative in the A Real American Hero line. First released as a Hasbro carded action figure in 1986, with 3 distinct figure versions produced across the 1982 to 1994 vintage run.
Dial-Tone appears in 4 episode synopses across the Sunbow (1983 to 1987) and DiC (1989 to 1992) runs, first appearing in Sunbow's "The Most Dangerous Thing in the World" (1986). Full screencap and continuity review pending.