 Meanwhile, the shared alter-ego of "El Gato Negro" originated from an abandoned settlement by the name of "El Gato", located south of Pharr, Texas.The character's personality and visual design was greatly influenced by Dominguez's own favorite pulp and comic book superheroes (most noticeably "Batman") along with classic Mexican luchadors such as El Santo.Another strong influence was Lee Falk's "The Phantom", a crime-fighter believed to be immortal but is in fact descended from 20 previous generations of crime-fighters who all adopted the same persona.