People (magazine) members regularly slept on the floor of their offices two or three nights each week and severely limited all non-essential outside engagements. The premier edition for the week ending March 4, 1974 featured actress Mia Farrow, then starring in the film "The Great Gatsby", on the cover. That issue also featured stories on Gloria Vanderbilt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the wives of U.S. Vietnam veterans who were Missing In Action. The magazine was, apart from its cover, printed in black-and-white. The initial cover price was 35 cents (). The core of the small founding editorial team included other editors, writers, photographers
Dynamite (magazine) issue, "Dynamite" #1, was dated March 1974 and featured the characters Hawkeye and Radar from the television series "M*A*S*H". The final issue, "Dynamite" #165, was dated March 1992 and featured actress Julia Roberts and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. "Dynamite" magazine served as an activity book each month, offering tricks, recipes, games, and contests. It also served as a monthly update on popular culture. "Dynamite" magazine was available through subscription, in limited quantities at newsstands, and through monthly orders circulated by school teachers using Scholastic's Arrow Book Club. In 1984, Scholastic Inc. reduced the number of color pages and lowered the publication