Quark and Maxcoin are not created by Max Keiser he just gave them a thumbs up I guess.

Startcoin however is his brainchild and he is the creator of the coin.
50% of the coin is premined indeed, if you have a StartJoin account and you donate or have your coins on that platform you get rewards.
Furthermore the premine is used for development and donating crowdfundprojects.
I personally like it because I can donate to charity and see the updates what is happening.

Guldencoin and Digibyte are 2 coins you really should check out, those are my personal top 2 coins.

http://timeline.guldencoin.com/   you can have a quick look what they have achieved already it is simply amazing
https://www.youtube.com/user/DigiByteCoin/videos  They currently have a video coming up every week with all updates.