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ATHLETICS
In junior high Jimmy was a an expert pole vaulter and track star.
DISGUISE
Even as a kid, Jimmy saw the usefulness of pretending to be someone else if only to keep himself out of trouble. As time has passed he has refined this survival skill to allow him to get into places unseen (more or less) to get the facts and pictures for his next story.
DRIVING
Jimmy is a skilled driver, a skill rare among city dwellers. He has driven scooters, motorbikes, cars and even a race car.
JOURNALISM
While not initially formally educated as a journalist, Jimmy gained his first journalist experience literally in the field and at the feet of Lois Lane and Clark Kent. His natural aptitude to research and investigation has made up for the lack of formal education though he started taking courses at CUNY a few years ago.
MULTILINGUAL
Growing up in the simmering melting pot of cultures that makes up Suicide Slum, Jimmy is conversant (if not FULLY fluent) in Spanish and Korean. Add through his association and adventures with Superman over the years can read and speak Kryptonese (at least as good as a Kryptonian adolescent).
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jimmy is a naturally skilled photographer, having started as a young teen taking pictures with an old non-digital camera he inherited form his grandfather who was a Charlie MoPic photographer for the US Army during the Vietnam War. It's also his grandfather who taught him to be a photographer before he passed, as well as how to develop film the old fashioned way which is a lost skill in this day and age.
STREETWISE
Born in Suicide Slum, Jimmy developed his street sense at quite a young age. He knows the ins and outs of the streets intimately and can usually find news sources that few other older reporters can match.
TECH SAVVY
Though he was born into an age of relatively cheap consumerism, Jimmy grew up poor enough that he rarely had the newest gadgets. To save money he taught himself how to rebuild and fix most relatively advanced electronics and, over time, to build his own if need be. The skill has come in handy, like when he built his first signal watch to alert Superman, to repair his cameras and, sometimes, sabotage equipment while pursuing a story of aiding someone in need. He is quite well versed in the use of computers, enough so that he could make a decent hacker if he truly set his mind to it.
