What a coincidence! This is Freddy Freeman's landlady's umbrella I've taken! She's such a good friend of that meddling newsboy, I wish there were some way I could use it to get her in trouble! 
Master Comics #106 is an issue of the series Master Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of August, 1949.
Synopsis for Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and The Magic Umbrella!"
Mrs. Wagner is out getting birthday gifts for her twin nieces, but finds the weather is bad and rain is heavy. She stops in the Tea Shoppe to get a cuppa to feel less damp. She's offered to put her umbrella in the backroom to lay on the ground and has a spot. Outside, Sivana, Jr. is just mugging people in the rain that Freddy spots him doing from his Newsstand and calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Captain Marvel, Jr. Sivana, Jr. scarpers into an alleyway and legs it into a window to try to hide and ends up in the umbrella back room behind the Tea Shoppe. He soon finds he's stolen Mrs. Wagner's umbrella and accidentally hooks a man's hat on it. Young Thaddeus realizes that he can weapon an umbrella for crime! Junior finds that Mrs. Wagner's umbrella has been stolen and Junior returns to being Freddy to keep an eye out for him. When she gets home, Mrs. Wagner finds another boarder, Tessie, has her umbrella, who says it was returned by some boy from the Tea Shoppe. She's happy to know that this won out, since Freddy did this for her and goes back to shopping, but goes to withdraw some spending cash. Sivana, Jr., watching her, sneaks off to the bank and brains a bank guard when he asks to open a new account and moves around the corner from him. He snickers about how a walkie-talkie in the “Magic” Umbrella makes it somehow follow his orders, snatching money from the teller's drawer when nobody is looking. The guards soon try to stop her and Freddy, outside, calls CAPTAIN MARVEL to become Captain Marvel, Jr., only to find it's Mrs. Wagner and hangs the money over to the “guard.” It's not until after he leaves that Junior finds the knocked-out single guard they have at the Citizen's Bank.
Junior decides to look into things at Police HQ while Mrs. Wagner goes to Bumble's Department Store to get that gift for her nieces. Sivana, Jr. slips into another disguise to order the Magic Umbrella to steal more things while in the jewelry department. He pulls the same trick of calling her out, retrieving the loot and then letting her go, but Junior decides he can't find another connection and goes on lunch. When he gets home, he finds Mrs. Wagner's far too stressed to make lunch for him and she explains what happened. Freddy rightly says that someone snuck the stolen goods into her umbrella, but finds that there's no floorwalker who returned anything. Freddy goes to the police to report all this and takes the Magic Umbrella with him. Young Thaddeus walk up on behind him in disguise and orders the Magic Umbrella to pick up a stolen wallet from him and calls Officer Jim over to arrest Freddy for supposedly doing it. Freddy is arrested and Sivana, Jr. returns the Magic Umbrella to Mrs. Wagner once more as she goes out to get her other twin niece a gift (she got a rhinestone pin for the first one) at the nearby Gift Shop. However, when Officer Jim calls up “Mr. Winters” by his phone number in his wallet, they find that he never spoke to any arresting officer about pressing charges and would also like his wallet back though. Freddy points out Sivana, Jr. stole it from him and starts to figure out that Sivana, Jr. is following around Mrs. Wagner using her Umbrella to steal things with some kind of strange gimmick he's installed into it, especially since he knew her name despite having his hand over the name on the handle. Meanwhile, Mrs. Wagner is almost accused of stealing an expensive ivory elephant worth $500, but calling CAPTAIN MARVEL, Captain Marvel, Jr. flies in and punches over Sivana, Jr. before he can accuse her and punches him through a door before he's arrested. Junior snaps the Umbrella, promising Mrs. Wagner he'll replace it.
Appearing in Capt. Marvel, Jr.: "Capt. Marvel, Jr. and The Magic Umbrella!"
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- Tessie
- Officer Jim Bellows
- Mr. Winter
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- Earth-S
- New York City
- Mrs. Wagner's Boarding House
- The Tea Shoppe
- Bumble's Department Store
- The Citizen's Bank
- The Gift Shop
- New York City
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- Mrs. Wagner's "Magic" Stealing Umbrella (Destroyed)
- A Pure Ivory Elephant Statuette
Synopsis for Nyoka the Jungle Girl: "Nyoka the Jungle Girl and The Fatal Spray"
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Synopsis for Bulletman the Flying Detective: "Bulletman the Flying Detective and the Case of the Crime Portrait"
Lt. Kent gets the call at Police HQ that Tiffany Mann, the famed jewelry, has been robbed of a fortune in diamonds! Jim Barr and Susan Kent head with him to look into it and find Mr. Mann says he was awakened in the night by someone who brought him a portrait of him from the famed artist, Hutchins Calder, but that Calder is that kind of eccentric, so it tracks. However, after staring at the portrait, he suddenly seemed to fall into a trance until someone called him that morning. When he awoke, his safe was open and his diamonds were gone. Jim and Lt. Kent soon find that Susan is entranced staring at the portrait herself and Jim has to clap near her face to awaken her. Lt. Kent presumes this means Calder is the one responsible and the two change into the Ballistic Duo to fire off and look into this. They soon finds that two goons, Brains and Dunn, have captured Calder and are forcing him to make hypnotic paintings. The Ballistic Duo fire by the window and the goons knock out Calder and run away with Brains dropping the diamonds trying to pocket them. They soon arrive and Calder explains it all about them and that they ran out the back door, but find the diamonds on the ground, indicating Calder might've been lying. Outside, Brains figures out he dropped the diamonds and sneak back into the house, knowing that Calder is being arrested for this and they can just jump off a veranda over the porch to get the diamonds back. When the Ballistic Duo and Calder exit, the goons toss them off a cliff, but Bulletman wakes up and drags the others to safety, then catches up to and knocks out the two goons. The Ballistic Duo carries them to Police HQ and Lt. Kent thanks them.
Appearing in Bulletman the Flying Detective: "Bulletman the Flying Detective and the Case of the Crime Portrait"
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- Bulletman (Final appearance)
- Bulletgirl (Final appearance)
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- Tiffany Mann, Famed Jeweler
- Hutchins Calder, Famed Artist
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- Brains
- Dunn
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- Lt. Kent (Final appearance)
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- Earth-S
- New York City
- Police HQ (Final appearance)
- Hutchins Calder's House
- New York City
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- The Gravity-Regulator Helmets (Final appearance)
- Hypnotic Paintings
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Synopsis for Tom Mix: "Tom Mix and Madness in the Mountains!"
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Trivia
- Despite the cover, the "Magic" Umbrella doesn't have tiny red hands, but is (somehow) still dexterous enough to steal small objects and cash without being noticed via some form of remote-control voice-activation. Further, it's not green with a stripe, but black with red polka dots.
- Sadly, this issue was released about eight years after the debut of The Penguin, the master of the art of umbrella-based crimes.
- Final Golden Age Appearance of Bulletman, Bulletgirl, and Lt. Kent
- Bulletman Returns in the DC Universe in Justice League of America# 135
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