Holiday Extravaganza Guests....

 Sharon Smyth Lentz started her career 'in the business' as a model for  Sears, Roebuck, and Company catalog at the tender age of 5 years old.  She did runway work for several fashion houses in New York City, and  voice overs for radio commercials.

Her first television  commercial was for Post Cereal, and thus started the steady stream of  auditions and many commercials for Sharon at such a young age.

In 1965, when Sharon was 8 years old, she portrayed a character named Suzie Carter on the soap opera, Search for Tomorrow (1951). At the time, each episode was 15 minutes long, and it was live.

By 1967 , Sharon won the role of little "Sarah Collins", the younger sister of Barnabas Collins, on the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows (1966).

Dark Shadows aired on ABC from 1966-71 and became one of TV's most popular daytime series of all time.

Today, Sharon is still acting and making appearances around the country, as well as taking on producer roles. 

 Glenn  Taranto’s numerous prime time TV appearances include Agent Carter,  Charmed, Shameless, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Law &  Order and Murder She Wrote. Portraying the all together kooky Gomez  Addams in 65 episodes of The New Addams Family brought him the most  acclaim. Daytime audiences remember him from recurring roles on Days of  Our Lives and most notably as Vincent Novak on General Hospital. Film  roles include, Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects, 8 Heads In a Duffel Bag  and Crash. Gamer's know him best from the MAFIA franchise voicing Don  Salieri. Glenn writes as well. His first screenplay, STOLEN, starred Jon  Hamm and Jessica Chastain.  

Legendary  Comic Artist Joe DelBeato will be back to join us for our Toms River Holiday Extravaganza Show on Sunday November 16, 2025 at the Toms River Elks Lodge  600 Washington Street. Toms River, NJ
Joe DelBeato  has been active in the world of comics since the 1970's. During his time  in Comics, Joe has worked on some of our favourite comic book  adaptations of toy-lines inducing M.A.S.K, G.I Joe, Visionaries,  Sectaurs, Inhumanoids, Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos as well as many  other established comic lines at Marvel and DC!

His  claim to M.A.S.K fame is as the original inker for the first DC comic  series including the Special MASK preview insert and the  original  4-part mini-series.

He continues  to keep M.A.S.K alive with his personalised comic covers and page  recreations. Contact Joe on his FaceBook page now to speak to him  regarding his amazing M.A.S.K art 

 Neil   Vokes has been active in the comics field since the mid-1980s,          drawing his first comic, 'The Key Eternal', at Comico in 1984. He   has        worked for several companies in various genres since. His work    was       published by the two major comic book publishers: Marvel    ('Untold       Stories of Spider-Man') and DC ('Superman Adventures').    He was also       present at Dark Horse with  'Adventures   of  the   Mask' and 'Jonny  Demon'.   Among his other credits  are   Malibu's     'Tarzan the Warrior',   Crystal/Apple's 'Eagle' and  Comico's     'Robotech   Masters'. He has also   drawn graphic novels like      'Parliament of Justice'   and 'The Black  Forest'  at Image Comics. 

 Christian   Espiritusanto learned the trades for the love of Comic and        Storytelling  at The Joe kubert School of Cartooning in Dover New       Jersey  & from  the best Artist in the Industry along with  many  TOP      Superstars &  instructors from big Names in Comic  Book   publishing     company such as  Marvel,DC, Dynamite,and  DarkHorse.    Christian     Espiritusanto  was  published on the   Official Walking  Dead magazine    issue #18, aka   contributing pin up    artists on  TWD  mags. Christian  Espiritusanto  collaborated  with   several    artists,writers and published  on  Horrendous and stupendous    magazine   .In  1995 Christian Espiritusanto   Created his very own  comic   series   called  Warriors Amongst Realms  that  was released On  August  1st   2018  Christian  Created his own  production  company  called Iloco    productions  Studio Were  other  artists and  creators  come together to    create and  work on new   projects from story   boards designs to Films   you  can check  out  Christian  Espiritusanto  on  of Facebook  Instagram  at    Christian.E.Santo_ArtWrite 

 Freelance artist~ Taking commissions, Comic/poster art, prints, portraiture, concept artist, writer. 

Professional photographer since 1973.  Cosplay since 2013. Two-Time Focal Point photographer of the year. Ranked in the top 20% on Viewbug multiple times. Recipient of numerous awards for both portrait and cosplay photography. Reconized "Value added" guest.

Steven Farkas is a horror and Science Fiction writer. He has written and published fifteen books in the genres of horror, science fiction and dystopian futures. He is best known for his short horror fiction and novellas, zombie books and collections, and the Blue Blaze books, his science fiction crime book series.

Find out more information at

https://linktr.ee/darkmindofstevenfarkas

The 501st Star Wars Legion is a wonderful group of volunteers who cosplay as Star War characters.  They attend many Con's, Shows, Events, Children's Hospitals etc..and are involved in charity work as well.  They are a huge hit at every event, show or con they attend with attendees posing for photos etc..They will be presenting a new droid at the Extravaganza show that is sure to be a hit with attendees!

Get into the Holiday spirit and join in the fun by wearing your ugly Holiday sweater!!  We will be having an Ugly Sweater Contest with some awesome prizes for our winners!

This is a group founded by a military veteran who has been cosplaying for five years and founded the group to help veterans deal with PTSD through different outlets such as building armor, painting and becoming your favorite character such as Mandalorian, Hellbat, or Red Hood.