user: ### NOW ANSWER:
Question: What is the First Issue date of Bamboo Blade?
Columns: ['Title', 'Author', 'First Issue', 'Last Issue', 'Completed?']
Types: ['text', 'text', 'text', 'text', 'text']
Sample row: ['Bamboo Blade', 'Masahiro Totsuka (author), Aguri Igarashi (artist)', 'August 2008', 'May 2009', 'No']
SQL:

assistant: SELECT "First Issue" FROM "Table" WHERE "Title" = 'Bamboo Blade';