Ther are lots of cultivars under 5 ft. "Good" is relative. I have not found the early cultivars to be as good quality as full season ones. Sunglo is about the best that I have tried in that category. Quickie and Silver Knight are not bad, but not comparable to their longer season counterparts. A full season cultivar that has short stalks in Golden Bantam, one of the best of the open pollinated cultivars Here is a link that might be useful: List of corn less than 6 ft. tall

I planted Northern Xtra Sweet Yellow, Mirai 421 W and Gurney's Gotta Have It this year. Northern Xtra Sweet and Gotta Have It were repeats from last year -- Northern because it produced so well last year (and again this year) and Gotta Have It because I figured I must have done something horribly wrong last year. (I must have done something horribly wrong again this year, too. I won't give it another chance here. I can't afford the garden space to get one ear of corn.) Anyway, like I said, Northern produced really well, and I'm leaning toward putting it in again next year for an early crop. It had pretty good cool-soil emergence and didn't seem to be bothered by the practically 30 days of rainy/overcast days in June. Mirai is on next year's list again, too. We enjoyed this augmented super-sweet. I often ate an ear of it in the garden when I got home from work. DH is incredibly fussy in odd ways. If supper doesn't come from a truck stop's hot deli, he'd just as soon not eat it. Corn on the cob is the exception. He normally doesn't pay any attention to what I'm doing in the garden, but he went so far as to suggest I only plant "that kind he likes" next year. I'm afraid to put all my eggs in that basket, though, as Mirai varieties are quite sensitive about soil planting temperature. Of the rest of your list, I've only grown Silver Queen. I planted it the very first time I had my own garden, which I think was 1995. Its DTM is actually a little long for this area, but everything must have been perfect that year (lots of hot, hot weather and no hail storms for a change). That corn was the most wonderful stuff I'd had since I was a kid in my mother's garden. I tried it a couple times after that but couldn't get another perfect season. HTH and good luck!

Here is some varieties to look into for AZ. They are all corns cultivated by the southwest and mexico region native American tribes. I think your best bet is the Black Aztec Corn. BLACK AZTEC CORN. Grown originally by the ancient Aztecs 2,000 years ago, this truly revered corn is drought tolerant, delicious and well worth growing in today's modern garden. The medium-sized ears have an old fashioned first class sweet corn taste in the white or "milk" stage and the ears will turn a deep jet black when fully mature for drying at which point it is ground for flour. Black Aztec is a link with the distant past when it was the mainstay of a whole civilization. 85 days. HOPI BLUE CORN. Heirloom Blue Corn of the Hopi Indians, original strain, very ornamental but can also be ground for flour. 110 days. SMOKE SIGNALS POP CORN is an American native heirloom that produces 4"-7" multi-colored ears on 8' stalks. The popcorn is tender and delicious and these are also nice decoratives. 100 days. *descriptions taken from www.cherrygal.com*

I don't know but go to a local farmstand, buy a flower and ask about growing corn. The people who work in them are always willing to help. (I always feel better about asking when I buy something.)