When toys from the Touchstone film Dick Tracy were released, the studio expected they would get a lot of attention from consumers. One of the action figures in the collection got plenty of attention, but not for a good reason.
"Steve the Tramp" hit shelves alongside the rest of the collection of toys from the film and had a low profile until someone read the back of the box. It seems that "Steve the Tramp" was described as an "ignorant bum" with "cauliflower ears" who you'd smell before you saw him. Homeless activists, who didn't differentiate between fictional criminals and real homeless people, became angry and the toys were removed from shelves. Of the entire range, "Steve the Tramp" is worth the most these days on the collector market.
