Cartoon Menko From 1962

I've been meaning for a while to do a post about a menko set that I really like - the 1962 Marukami "Cartoon Menko" set (JCM 139).  The twenty cards in this set all featured "player drawings with cartoon-like colors" according to Engel.  The big names in the set are Sadaharu Oh and Shigeo Nagashima but somewhat surprisingly the set doesn't include any of the other big names that you'd expect to find in a set from 1962 like Katsuya Nomura, Masaichi Kaneda or Isao Harimoto.  There's one player - Yukio Ozaki of the Flyers - who has two cards in the set for some reason.  The cards are a little smaller than the typical "tobacco menko" of the era - 1 3/16 inches by 2 7/16 inches as opposed to 1 13/16 inches by 3 inches.

Here are the five cards that I have from this set:

Seiji Shibuya

Motohiro Andoh

Yukio Ozaki

Yukio Ozaki

Kunio Jonouchi

The backs of the cards don't have any biographical information about the player and in fact each card can have any back so the backs with the menko numbers don't uniquely identify the card.  Here's the back of Jonouchi's card:

I looked at the backs using Google Translate and I think they all have trivia questions on them - not baseball trivia but general knowledge.  I think the question on the back of Jonouchi's card is asking where the world's largest telescope is with the answer (as of 1962) being Palomar Mountain Observatory in the United States.