Dial Tone made all his own equipment, buying parts with quarters which he earned by bagging groceries.

[3][4] The figure was repainted and released as part of the "Special Missions: Brazil" box set in 1986,[5] and the Sonic Fighters line in 1990.

[10] Dial-Tone is part of a different team that successfully plants spy equipment at the Cobra Consulate building in New York City.

[12] At the end of the comic series it is revealed that Dial-Tone invented numerous state of the art innovative devices that he patented and made him wealthy.

[volume & issue needed] Dial-Tone shows up in the IDW series as part of a team trying to track down Destro.

His status as a Joe was likewise questionable and in an issue of Marvel Age he was said to be a "probationary member" and that he was hanging on "by the skin of his teeth".

Dial-Tone is part of the group of Joes that go to rescue Cover Girl, Lady Jaye and the kidnapped models and actresses.

[14] In "The Spy Who Rooked Me", Dial-Tone is with Flint, Lady Jaye and Cross Country on a mission to deliver nerve gas to a chemical weapons arsenal, working with a British secret agent as well.

In an armor drill, Dial-Tone reprograms the missile guidance systems of the H.A.V.O.C.s, leading to an accident that almost kills Leatherneck and Wet-Suit.

[16] In "Joe's Night Out", Dial-Tone arranges a date for himself, Wet-Suit and Leatherneck with three of his women friends at a new nightclub in town.

Dial-Tone provides him with a six-pack of sodas as propellants, a radio communicator in a fishbowl used in place of a helmet, and attaches him with a makeshift lifeline.

[17] In "Sins of the Fathers", Dial-Tone is turned down for re-enlistment and hired by a disguised Zarana for a project utilizing his expertise in communications involving "very specific parameters".

In his new job, Dial-Tone creates a communications system near the ruins of Destro's castle, secretly intended to awaken a creature, which Cobra Commander orders to kill Serpentor.

[19] A blond female character named Dial Tone first appeared in the new IDW comic series.

Joe: Resolute, there is a female agent working on the USS Flagg is approached by Gung Ho and asked for information about the recent Cobra attack.

Her data file states that her real name is "Jill J. Morelli," and that she took over her brother's post on the team after he disappeared on a mission.